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January 9, 2024

Vale ‘sister suffragette’: how Glynis Johns became a pop‑culture icon in the story of votes for women

Ana Stevenson, University of Southern Queensland and Lindsay Helwig, University of Southern Queensland

Glynis Johns, most famous for her role as the suffragette mother Mrs Winifred Banks in Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964), passed away last week at the age of 100.

Violence against women is often represented as a timeless and universal phenomenon, creating the view the problem is too large to fix, or that only the worst abuses are worthy of attention. James Ross/AAP Image

July 14, 2019

The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today

Alana Piper, University of Technology Sydney and Ana Stevenson, University of the Free State

History shows that domestic violence has been deeply entrenched in the culture of Australia from its early days. Progress is only made by understanding this history – and talking about it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda (centre), Emily Blunt, Julie Walters, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson in Mary Poppins Returns (2018). Lucamar Productions,Marc Platt Productions,Walt Disney Pictures

December 11, 2018

Will the new Mary Poppins film acknowledge the suffragettes’ success?

Ana Stevenson, University of the Free State

Disney’s 1964 classic film had a suffragette theme, but it remains to be seen if the new version will celebrate votes for women.

Feminism informs Hillary Clinton’s personal story and influences her policies, but only to a degree. Reuters/Mark Makela

August 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard: how the media shape our view of leaders as ‘women’

Ana Stevenson, University of the Free State

Hillary Clinton’s political success has been partially due to a willingness to conform to certain journalistic expectations about gender.

At the film premiere of Suffragette, Sisters Uncut’s Dead Women Can’t Vote campaigners protested against Britain’s domestic violence policies by featuring the colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Will Oliver/AAP

October 8, 2015

The suffragettes were rebels, certainly, but not slaves

Ana Stevenson, University of Pittsburgh

When Meryl Streep and the stars of the upcoming film Suffragette donned t-shirts emblazoned with the quote “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave,” they reignited a contentious debate in feminism.

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