Womanhood

Do These 'Girls' Have 'First World Problems'?

Salon | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Young Adulthood, Girls, Growing Up, Damsels in Distress, Post College Life, Post-College, Whit Stillman Damsels in Distress, Womanhood, Lena Dunham, Women News

There's a scene in an early episode of Lena Dunham's "Girls" where Dunham's character, Hannah, openly fantasizes about testing positive for HIV. That ...

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Wanting to Have a Baby in My Twenties

Kate Fridkis | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Generation Y, Motherhood, Kate Fridkis, Being a Young Woman, Babies, Womanhood, Young Women in NYC, Women News
Kate Fridkis

In our society, motherhood and success are seen as distinct. We try to pretend we value everything equally while publishing op-eds about whether or not the sexual revolution was a good idea.

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Unnatural Women: Childless in America

Melanie Notkin | Posted 02.26.2012

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Melanie Notkin

Childlessness is the state into which a girl is born. But once she reaches her mid thirties, that natural state is suddenly deemed unnatural.

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Womanhood is a Work in Progress

Erin Joy Henry | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Spiritual Evolution, Self Acceptance, Femininity, Girl Power, Womanhood, Women News
Erin Joy Henry

The feminine part of me laid dormant for so many years because it was a side I associated with weakness.

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WATCH: Will Ferrell's Open Letter To Women

Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Women, Video, Parodies, Urlesque, Nick Kroll, Feminism, Womanhood, Manifesto-for-Conscious-Men, Tim Heidecker, Will Ferrell, The One, Brett Gelman, Dear Woman, Funny or Die, Will Forte, Jon Daly, Dear Woman Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell Dear Woman Video, Conscious Men Dear Woman, Will Ferrell Funny or Die Women, Huffington Post Will Ferrell Women Open Letter, Will Ferrell Dear Woman, Will Ferrell Women, Dear Woman Video, Comedy News

Last March, a group called Conscious Men released a video containing their manifesto. It was entitled "Dear Woman," and to date has gotten over 600,00...

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Kenyan Girls Fight Back Against Controversial Genital Mutilation

Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Marriage, Women's Rights, Video, Kenya, Womanhood, Genital Mutilation, World News

Two teenage girls in Kenya have attempted an unprecedented rebellion by refusing one of the most controversial rites of local womanhood: genital mutil...

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Articles About Womanhood, Motherhood, and Beauty: Time to Say Something New

Kate Fridkis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Amy Alkon, Pyschology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Breastfeeding, The New York Times Magazine, Motherhood, Beauty, Evangelicalism, Womanhood, Marriage, Women, Parenting, Feminism, Healthy Living News
Kate Fridkis

No matter what I do, it's going to be a political statement, and women will be writing articles and preaching to paying audiences about all the people in the group I accidentally affiliated with.

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Growing up: Girls, Look Sexy Like Miley

Kate Fridkis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Growing Up, Girlhood, Lady GaGa, Miley Cyrus, Pop Stars, Eat the Damn Cake, Feminism, Who Owns My Heart, Models for Adulthood, Womanhood, Miley Cyrus Video, Entertainment News
Kate Fridkis

Miley is seventeen. She's reached that point in every girl's life when a deep desire to wrap her naked body in an enormous snake overpowers all other needs or considerations.

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