girlishness

Since the 1970s, Bonnie Lucas has been reconfiguring the icks and discomforts of feminine aesthetics, revealing the precise flavor of subjugation imposed by sweetie-pie girlishness. Combining frilly garments, plush animals, hair grips, jelly shoes, flowers, bunnies, decorated eggs, wedding cake figurines, sequins, baby toys, and ballet ribbons, the artist constructs unstable bodies that burst open at the seams.

But she also has a lightness, an airiness, a girlishness and a certain degree of social innocence.''

Wilson's style is accessible and witty, and while the book isn't likely to reshape your thinking about Victoria, it does conjure something of her spirit, her energy, the girlishness that was evident even in the ageing queen." NATASHA TRIPNEY

Glamour and girlishness were embraced; the 1950s emphasis on the domestic and the maternal was rejected.

* Cutoffs are made even cuter with crochet trim--plus it adds girlishness to straighter hips.

She curls into Shane's arms, laughing and embarrassed by her girlishness.

One of the facets of Marcella's character that she usually kept out of public view, so that it largely escaped notice, is what could be described as her impish girlishness. She was mischievous and loved making faces, especially when a photographer was about to snap her.

Although Millbank prison has "subdued" a lot of Selina's "girlishness" (Waters, 1999: 306), through the eyes of Margaret, Selina appears as a slender, delicate girl with fair hair and a "fine face": "her cheek was pale, the sweep of brow, of lip, of lashes crisp against her pallor" (Waters, 1999: 27).

Of course, I chose these three books to discuss out of many possible titles, largely due to my own interest in the category of girlishness, the girly, and girlhood, and the ways in which these notions are problematized by Third Wave feminist poetics like the Gurlesque.

The power of the pink fleece -- the epitome of girlishness -- stands in stark juxtaposition to her bereavement.

I am definitely excited about itEoACA* I can't wait to meet my beautiful fans out there -- it's always a surreal experience for me," said Coleman, with a genuine girlishness about her impending visit to the UAE this weekend.

It really shows the Princess's sense of fun and girlishness."

Birthday dresses hide and expose girlishness. Partnering up explores full bodily queerness.

Taught to value herself only by her reflection in a man's admiring eyes, many a woman spends her whole time in desperate scheming for attention, in frenzied resentment of people or ideas that "come between her and her family"; many a woman clings pathetically to girlishness well into her fifties.