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Sylvie feels like her radical world only exists in the past and as she gets older her choices and world are shrinking.
Feminist scholar Rebecca Sullivan says meeting Gloria Steinem was a highlight of her career. Here, she reflects on everything she gave us, but also how she may have overshadowed other feminists.
The journalist, author and activist has died aged 92. She spent more than 60 years setting feminist torches alight the world over.
Whether ad-libbing her way through a duet or joking about her glamorous image, Parton turned sexist assumptions into a source of power.
Although it’s important that journalists practice diligence and deference, communities need to be willing to engage, forgive and voice concern.
Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.
Shere Hite dropped a bomb on American society when she upended traditional notions about female sexuality.
There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.
From the middle ages on, threatening the patriarchy by displaying ambition or failing to conform to societal gender norms was taken as evidence of witchcraft.
Marjane Satrapi will be remembered for her eye-opening film Persepolis which transformed not only Westerners but also exiled Iranians’ understanding of Iran in a simple yet powerful way.
As podcasts have moved from an amateur pursuit to a commercialised powerhouse, their power to impact men’s mental health has been revealed.
Glamour isn’t just for the rich and famous. As the ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ showed, the blue collar can bedazzle.
In 1979, Wood Sherif wrote my favourite psychological paper of all time.
Good sex is only achieved through effective communication and mutual understanding, according to the Kamasutra. Consent is key to all of this
Online sexism is no longer primarily a series of isolated or individual opinions but has evolved into a system-level phenomenon that spreads through digital platforms and produces real-world consequences.
Over the past 10 years, masculinism has moved from the fringes to the centre of public debate, driven by social media and its viral dynamics.
Alcohol labels using artwork, imagery and symbols are designed to appeal to women. Here’s why that’s a problem.
The short book makes a powerful statement about how authoritarianism begins in the household.
Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Professor in History, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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