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The Power of Parker also stars Sian Gibson. Plus: the Proms celebrates Bollywood and Marilyn Monroe’s feminism. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Barbie movie is being celebrated (and slammed) as a feminist film, with its themes of female empowerment and critiques of the patriarchy. Can the same be said for the doll at the center of it?

In the Barbie movie, we open with a picture of a perfect Barbieland where (almost) everyone is happy, diversity and sisterhood are embraced, and Barbies hold all positions of power.

Almost 30 years ago, when I researched and wrote a history of the people and ideas that led to the creation of Barbie, I had no doubt she would be as talked about in 2023 as she was in 1959, when she first appeared.

I know many people born in 1961 – they are my contemporaries and friends. It doesn’t seem so long ago. Their lives and experiences seem modern to me. They don’t seem old: certainly, none of them have problems working their iPhones. And yet, 60 years is aeons ago when it…

Mattel has reinvented its doll in the language of empowerment, but it’s a hollow, plastic form of feminism

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One can’t stand the term feminism, the other thinks women are more powerful as a collective. Can they find any common ground?

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

"She gives up her voice for a man" isn't a valid critique of Disney's Ariel in the year 2023 – and it never was

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career