Barbie has had over 200 official careers. Often decked out in her signature pink, the doll has showed generations that they do not have to sacrifice their love of femininity in order to succeed.
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Comic book depictions of superheroines as politicians illustrate how sexism weakens democracy and why comics history is relevant to contemporary politics.
Clever marketing of the “Barbie” movie and related merchandise have secured this iconic brand even greater recognition and financial success.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
Nel Law’s voyage to Antarctica and back, through the choppy waters of a longstanding marriage, is the story of a woman’s right to be, to change, to grow and to love.
Anna Funder’s new book, Wifedom, is a meditation on the insidious nature of patriarchy. Funder draws parallels between our #metoo era and the time of George Orwell and his wife Eileen.
Gillard’s legacy - a mixed one on policy - was more than just the misogyny speech.
Women who served in unofficial combat and intelligence roles during the Afghanistan war offer brutally honest accounts of their experiences.
The South Korean government’s embrace of gendered citizenship has fueled the virulent gender war between men and women, with digital sex crimes used as ammunition.
In focussing on individual “deviancy”, we fail to make the connection between misogyny and wider social problems, like pornography.
Feminism helped power the tide of change carrying Gough Whitlam to power in 1972. What were his government’s historic achievements for women? And what do Australian women need to fight for next?
Pip Williams’ follow-up to her internationally bestselling debut novel explores World War I, women’s rights and sisterhood – but what makes it special is its unwavering attention to the making of books.
Finance is not inherently masculine. Rather, it was long constructed as such by the institutions which sought to exclude women.
A new three-part series brings together a wealth of material and voices to present new films, photographs, stories and theories about the brilliant artist.
Even if Ovid leaves it out, the female sex organ is well-attested in Greek and Latin medical literature.
Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
Marina Benjamin’s essays investigate the social and philosophical dimensions of housework and ‘femininity’. Maxine Fei-Chung’s book gives an often-harrowing account of eight women who struggle.
There is an adage that feminists and women aren’t funny. However, the history of activism reveals humour as a successful strategy for change.
The manosphere may not strictly be centred on misogyny, but in young men’s search for connection, truth, control, and community at a time where all are increasingly uncertain and ill-defined.
This is far from the first time alternative words for God have been discussed.
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