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Items in this collection are related to gender or gender issues, and may contain sexist stereotyping. The items are presented here for historical context.

An educational resource that focuses on the ways in which (and related issues like sexuality, social class, race, etc.) and advertising intersect. The primary focus of this Web site is print advertising.

A website for teenage girls.

This is a directory of media owned and operated primarily by, for and about women. They do not include men’s “women’s magazines” (magazines directed at women), even if they have a female staff. They do include many academic periodicals which are…

Male or female: Seems simple enough, but these categories which were assigned to us at birth carry with them a whole lot of social and cultural meanings and expectations. This site unpacks some of the media’s baggage around what it means to be a boy…

From the Beauty Myth to the next top models, how do the media construct our perceptions of healthy and attractive bodies?

Lilia Goldfarb looks at the connections between the sexualization of girls and the corporate marketing strategies of the industries that profit from this. She also looks at the health consequences of these practices. In this presentation Goldfarb…

A feminist advocacy organisation. Activists who engage in research and analysis of the issues affecting women globally; amplify the voices, advocacies and analyses of feminist and social movement activists; build women’s capacity to use media and…

Explore digitised images from this ground-breaking feminist 20th-century magazine.

Women in Journalism is an award-winning, nationwide oral history project initiated by the National Women’s Press Club and now under the stewardship of the Washington Press Club Foundation.