Definition of "girlchild" [girlchild]

• A female child. (noun)

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• "Lockhart's resultant imagery is the kind of recombinant gender codification that takes the coding once restricted to cross-dressing Sand, Dietrich, Garbo to what is now a true crossing of the homosocial divide, one that brands the athletic girlchild as a participant in the gradual erosion and usurpation of the male homosocial codes that were for decades most pronounced in athletic spaces."
• "In the lipstick-lesson scene in particular, Weems has seen to it that the iconic image of the girlchild in formation not only directs attention to the homosocial bond between mother and daughter, the artist also explicitly asserts the desire of girls firstly to compose themselves homosocially."
• "And in so doing, the artist reveals that this appeal to men is actually an extension of the girlchild stage -- when a girl dresses, makes herself beautiful, for her mother, sisters and girlfriends."