girlhood

Her standards for men are impossibly high, thanks to a girlhood rich in Disney, Cosmopolitan, and private school.

Mary spent her girlhood in seclusion.

We don't know much of Skura's girlhood in Algeria.

She says a sense of exile and longing cast a shadow over her girlhood and accounts for her lifelong devotion to social justice.

One of the biggest sleights of hand of the anti-trans movement has been to treat the existence of trans boys and men as itself a war on girlhood and womanhood.