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To paraphrase Madonna, girls just wanna have freedom, good role models and a enough money to get by. This week our writers put gender equality under the microscope, asking how headscarves got so controversial, parsing the messages that cartoons send to girls
and making the case for giving cash to Southeast Asian women, no strings attached.
We’re also updating our “Talking sex, changing cultures" series as new content comes in, so check in there for more on sexuality and gender.
Enjoy your Saturday.
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Carol Mann, Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis
The versatile, controversial piece of clothing has come to symbolise both the oppression of women and their empowerment.
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Disney’s retrograde princesses have seen some improvements in recent years, but they still send mixed messages about what female leadership looks like.
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Virginia García Beaudoux, University of Buenos Aires
Princesses are not great role models if we want to raise empowered daughters.
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Women living below the poverty line will be empowered by UBI.
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Tamara Nair, Nanyang Technological University
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | Hirshhorn Museum.
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Fabrice Rousselot, The Conversation; Stephan Schmidt, The Conversation; Clea Chakraverty, The Conversation; Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
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