«Girls Night Out: Femininity as Masquerade» brings together work by seven young artists that deals with the idea
of womanliness in terms of its accoutrements, its trappings.
Saoirse Ronan, emerging decorously into
womanliness in Brooklyn, deserves a stack of awards nominations for her portrayal of a brave young woman torn between her old life in Ireland and her new existence in 1952 New York's most vibrant borough.
«Sherman started with portraiture and depicted solitary girls and women dressed up, made up, performing
womanliness as convention and disguise.
Modest women, Shalit says, «live in a way that makes
womanliness more a transcendent, implicit quality than a crude, explicit quality.»
As the illusions of bodies fused, androgynously, the fantasies
around womanliness and sexual excitement feed each other and Krishna «knows» Radha not with the eye but with the flesh.
Womanliness enhanced by modesty becomes as intriguing as the Sphinx, in which a Mona Lisa smile far outshines a silicone - enhanced D - cup.
Lace trim is a delicate embellishment that imbues various clothing with the
charming womanliness of lace.
From Giambattista Valli's merging of rococo and modernism to Donatella Versace's ode to volume and draping, the celebration of
traditional womanliness was widespread this week.
Charge Nurse Betty Charge Nurse Betty wrote me this, «Of GODDESS and by Goddess we of
womanliness are not gods because there is Only That Which Is, and therefore Natural, and Not supernatural, as the electron goeth Not around backwards.
Narsi Mehta, Nammalvar and countless other, unknown devotees of the Radha - Krishna cults perhaps bear testimony to the primal yearning of men, ensheathed and isolated by their masculinity, to yield their heroic trappings and delight in
womanliness, woman's and their own.
But to render her more like man in order to accomplish this, and to judge
her womanliness a hindrance to her ascendancy, is to get things exactly backwards.
NCB isn't concerned with validating personal choices — it is an ideology that functions to construct a dominant version of childbirth and
womanliness, and consequently affects all women to some degree.
I don't need a bedroom to prove
my womanliness.
Across the widest range of fabrics, lace has always been distinguished by the impression of airiness,
womanliness and charming delicacy.
It features wave cut fishtail brim with plant embroidery which adds
you womanliness temperament.
An older woman is typically a better associate and more touching
her womanliness and sensuous moments.
That the apple company is a symbol of
womanliness.
Moreover, you will really like the durability of their personality behind their façade of
womanliness.
They are not afraid of
their womanliness and fragility.
She is a recipient of the Willson Center for the Arts research grant for her thesis work Lady Beasts: An Investigation of
Womanliness.
Joan Riviere, in her essay of 1929
Womanliness as a Masquerade, published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, says: «Womanliness -LSB-...] could be worn as a mask -LSB-...] The reader may ask where I draw the line between genuine womanliness and the masquerade.