Barbie is not Born, but Rather Becomes, Barbie by Sue Spaid

“… I begin this paper by identifying several criticisms of the film Barbie (2023), several of which have been proposed as reasons to deny its feminist content. I then circle back to what I consider the film's most coherent theme, which exemplifies Simone de Beauvoir's best-known quote, `One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.' …”
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Les femmes et le confit politique nord-irlandais à l’écran : images d’une population exclue ou victime dans le film Maeve ? by Cécile Bazin

“…While it is very rare to see women’s political involvement in the Northern Irish conflict on screen, Maeve (Pat Murphy, 1981) projects specific images of the Troubles through a feminist meditation on the status of Catholic women coming from a Republican background in Northern Ireland. …”
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Consécration de la faune et de la flore comme motifs esthétiques et d’identité culturelle dans l’art mexicain du xxe siècle by Christine Frérot

“…Concerning the flower, it has gradually turned into a feminist symbol in Mexican contemporary art.…”
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Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study by Suzanne Bouclin

“…Drawing on methods from feminist jurisprudence, intersectionality namely, I locate Katja von Garnier’s film Iron Jawed Angels (2004) in its historical, legal and discursive contexts to suggest how it constitutes meaning about the solidarities and divergences within the American women’s movement at the turn of the 20th century. …”
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Gestes et formes esthétiques désobéissants. by Mathieu Corp

“…One of the singular features of this social mobilization is the diversity and recurrence of the gestures and interventions implemented in public space, sharing certain characteristics of so-called acts of civil disobedience and drawing on aesthetic and artistic resources: from iconoclastic gestures implemented on statues and monuments, to performances organized by various feminist collectives, to light projections by the Delight Lab collective. …”
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The Gender Order in Sumak Kawsay and Suma Qamaña. A Look at the Current Debates in Bolivia and Ecuador by Silvia Vega Ugalde

“…To respond, I enquire into the positions that the representatives of the indigenous peoples, of state organisms, and of feminist organizations adopt in both countries. The article demonstrates the different reach of the debate in Ecuador and Bolivia and touches upon the policy of de-patriarchalization installed in the latter that has dynamized political discussions in recent years.…”
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La place de la conception des technologies éducatives dans les inégalités socionumériques d’usage by Simon Collin

“…To do so, we draw on the script metaphor elaborated by Madeleine Akrich (1987) and extended to power relations by the feminist studies of the Social Shaping of Technology (SST).…”
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Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis by Leslie Hammer

“…Although these transnational relationships propagate a feminist agenda that challenges gender and racial hierarchies in powerful ways, the novella also complexly participates in the subordination of dark foreign Others and the US imperial project.…”
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Feminizing a Colonial Epic: On Spofford’s “Priscilla” by Daniela Daniele

“…By shifting her focus from the celebration of the army leader Miles to the disempowered Priscilla who stubbornly claims her freedom in love, Spofford points to the private horrors of colonization in an exemplary feminist apologue filled with domestic sentiments which partakes of what Alide Cagidemetrio defines as a “usable past.”…”
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Les réseaux d’autrices de la bande dessinée en France by Marys Renné Hertiman

“…The data used in this article is based on archival and field work (participant observation and interviews) and reflects a study that uses mixed methods of feminist research. The problematic addressed here concerns the collective bargaining of female comic book creators, from the rise of the industry in the 1970s to the contemporary period. …”
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L’expression de la violence dans la broderie contemporaine by Léonie Lauvaux

“…Forsaking its decorative nature, it is described as being “subversive” when it is used for feminist purposes that denounce male domination. Red, the colour of violence and blood, is traditionally used in classic ABCs and the embroidered initials in the marking of a trousseau, and it has been questioned by many artists. …”
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From Chicago to Hollywood: the Metamorphosis of V.I. Warshawski by Nicole Décuré

“…The passage from novel to film is often a difficult one. When it comes to feminist fiction, the problem becomes acute because the ideology of Hollywood combined with that of a male director find it hard to accommodate such a vision. …”
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[In] Searching Our Mothers’ Archives by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

“… Black feminist scholarship provokes us to reimagine archives in creative and speculative ways and echoes everyday Black communities’ deep investment in memory that rejects the idea of African people as a people without history. …”
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The Needle and the Brush: A Victorian Drama by Pamela GERRISH NUNN

“…It was made clear that needlework was, as Rozsika Parker’s pioneering feminist study proposed, assumed to absorb and ring-fence both women’s time and their creative aspirations while fine art was expected to display qualities foreign to femininity and thus seemed a potentially transgressive occupation for women.…”
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Creating a ‘Truer’ Language Within a Work of Fiction: The Example of Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue by Ruth MENZIES

“…Centuries later, in her feminist science-fiction novel, Native Tongue (1984), Suzette Haden Elgin embarks upon a rather different project, aimed at providing women with a language capable of expressing their specific experience of life and the world. …”
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How to do Things with Screens? Anti-Pornography Feminism and Censorship by Denis Ramond

“…In order to get around the emphasis that American jurisprudence places on freedom of speech, some antipornography feminists have used the theory of speech acts to demonstrate the wrongs that pornographic representations can inflict on women. …”
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Le personnel est encore politique by Claude Chastagner

“…Is the revolutionary feminist slogan of the sixties, “personal is political”, still relevant today?…”
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To Speed Our Boys Home... Produce and Conserve. Share and Play Square. Home Front Propaganda and Food during World War II: Rewriting Gender? by Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

“…This construction had two concomitant consequences: first, the focus on 1950s white suburban housewives in middle-class suburbs during the Cold war, and second, the creation of female solidarity, which, in part, led to feminist demands in the 1960s.…”
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Un document: Deziluziile mele în Rusia by Emma Goldman, Cristina Deutsch

“…In 1906, she publishes, together with Alexander Berkman, Mother Earth, a magazine with a feminist-anarchist orientation, publishinging both Nietzsche’s writings and Leo Tolstoy’s essays, both of them having a major influence upon her ideas. …”
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Feminine Characterization of The God by Ibrahim Bor

“…This study aimed aligns with the feminist theological approach, advocating for the reinterpretation of theological and religious language in order to liberate it from the dominance of a patriarchal language and reveal its feminine aspect. …”
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