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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Double Standards and Derision – tracing our attitudes to older women and beauty

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Madonna and fashion designer Jeremy Scott Lucas Jackson/Reuters Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, is a rare...
Monday, April 3, 2017

We’re Definitely Not in Kansas Anymore: Return to Oz (1985)

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Earlier this year I introduced a Cinemaniacs  screening of Return to Oz . Here's a transcript of my talk. Return to Oz i s a strang...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Goodbye Horses (and Transphobia): Transgenderism in Film and Literature

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In Laurie Frankel’s new novel This is How it Always Is , an American family grapples with prejudice about transgender children. Youngest chi...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Selections from an Interview on Modernising Children's Books for ABC Radio Melbourne

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The Ugly History of Cosmetic Surgery

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American advertisement for "non-surgical" nose correction Reality television shows based on surgical transformations, such as ...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

There is no "War on Barbie": Toys, Gender Inequality and Domestic Violence

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Uncredited image Last week  marked White Ribbon Day in Australia, a focal point for the male led campaign to end violence against women...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Alice in Wonderland at 150: Why fantasy stories about girls transcend time

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John Tenniel, The Nursery Alice It’s 150 years since an Oxford mathematics don published the most important work of children’s literatu...