When biographer Gretchen Gerzina came across an old British newspaper article calling Sarah E. Farro “the first negro novelist,” she wondered: who was Farro, and why had she been lost to history?
A violent attack on a female student at one of South Africa’s prominent universities was not an isolated incident. It told a universal tale of how patriarchy still rules.
The association of female underclothes with fashion and seduction owes as much to the advertising and film industries as it does to technical innovation.
Robin Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
One of the primary ways people express their gender is through their voice. Voice features such as pitch, voice quality and inflection signal the person’s gender to others.
At a time when thin, muscly men dominate popular media, male ‘plus size’ models are all too rare. Yet the average Australian man is not lean and stringy – imagine if he saw himself in ad campaigns?
The royal commission’s recommendations seek a complete transformation of Victorian family violence services, and the state’s prevention of and response to family violence.
Madonna, who attacked “sexist” criticism of her Rebel Heart tour, has always had a troubled relationship with feminism. And there is little about pop’s perfectionist workaholic that is rebellious today.