girlhoods

It was the women of the generation before them, the so-called Silent Generation, who broke out of the conformity of their 1950s girlhoods and took hostile fire in the early days of feminism but stuck to their guns.

Remembering Ferraro and a long-ago era 2011

I remember Laurel speaking movingly about the older Sierra Leonean women who had undergone FGM in their girlhoods and still mourn the loss of a part of their sexual lives.

Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation Chi Mgbako 2010

I remember Laurel speaking movingly about the older Sierra Leonean women who had undergone FGM in their girlhoods and still mourn the loss of a part of their sexual lives.

Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation Chi Mgbako 2010

Some of Charli's co-queens in Las Vegas have lived girlhoods so steeped in rodeo queen dreams that when they did not win the Miss Rodeo pageant in their home state, they moved elsewhere and nabbed another state's title.

Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant Darragh Johnson 2010

I remember Laurel speaking movingly about the older Sierra Leonean women who had undergone FGM in their girlhoods and still mourn the loss of a part of their sexual lives.

Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation Chi Mgbako 2010

Some of Charli's co-queens in Las Vegas have lived girlhoods so steeped in rodeo queen dreams that when they did not win the Miss Rodeo pageant in their home state, they moved elsewhere and nabbed another state's title.

Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant Darragh Johnson 2010

I remember Laurel speaking movingly about the older Sierra Leonean women who had undergone FGM in their girlhoods and still mourn the loss of a part of their sexual lives.

Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation Chi Mgbako 2010

I remember Laurel speaking movingly about the older Sierra Leonean women who had undergone FGM in their girlhoods and still mourn the loss of a part of their sexual lives.

Chi Mgbako: Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation Chi Mgbako 2010

The princess industry has been booming in the past few years -- not just the Disney dolls and scratchy toy-store ball gowns that are a rite of passage in most American girlhoods, but a brazen new breed of princess products that target a far wider age range and tap into less seemly attitudes.

Bringing Up Princess: Turning Girls Into Narcissists 2009

She retraced her steps and waited for two hours at the station, reconstructing for herself Ann's girlhood in Centralia and thinking larger thoughts of the things which spoiled girlhoods, the pity of it all.

The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915