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Feminism

The Barbie Curse

Can a girl’s first icon of can-do power ever be good enough?

August 30, 2023 • by Honor McConnell
Barbie is the most popular doll in the world, and the most hated....

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Barbie in Herland

Greta Gerwig meets Charlotte Perkins Gilman

August 30, 2023 • by Sandrine Bergès
What is perhaps most striking in both stories is the discovery that the Real World and Ourland are both barbaric places dominated by murderous men....

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