girlwoman

The Pact includes: religious iconography, a stultified house, a sexy tough girl protagonist played with equal parts fragility and ferocity by Caity Lotz, a newly-dead and much-despised mother, a serial killer on the loose, a fragile girlwoman with raccoon eyes who sees dead people, wiry bald men slithering through small spaces, a hot cop who would like to save the day, but instead provides the movie's nod to gore.

Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Pact Heather Donahue 2012

The Pact includes: religious iconography, a stultified house, a sexy tough girl protagonist played with equal parts fragility and ferocity by Caity Lotz, a newly-dead and much-despised mother, a serial killer on the loose, a fragile girlwoman with raccoon eyes who sees dead people, wiry bald men slithering through small spaces, a hot cop who would like to save the day, but instead provides the movie's nod to gore.

Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Pact Heather Donahue 2012

Because aside from the bulls-eye for a nation's libido, the undulating girlwoman also served as a rejoinder to those girls who'd work hard, trying to be people.

Holly Gleason: Somebody's Daughter, Somebodies' Mother: Britney Spears Plays Chicken with the Inevitable 2008

The very heart of the girlwoman went out to him, her dreamhusband, because she knew on the instant it was him.

Ulysses 2003

The very heart of the girlwoman went out to him, her dreamhusband, because she knew on the instant it was him.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911