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fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 weeks ago

Remembering Victoria Merl, founder of ad agency, lover of Tinkerbell

She started out as an actor, singer and dancer, later went into the advertising industry, then did what many women did back then married and became a wife and mother. Later she divorced and started to truly find her voice. Divorce was not the norm back then but she went back to work and carved out a career. She turned her living room into a dance studio
Marketing
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Pretty birds and silly moos': the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act

Female journalists in the late 1960s–early 1970s faced pervasive workplace sexism, censorship of women's liberation coverage, and exclusion from many professional spaces.
fromwww.amny.com
3 months ago

Review | Liberation' bares allliterally and politically | amNewYork

A group of women sits before us completely nude, unguarded, and unashamed. They are young and old, Black and white, straight and gay. Their bodies are diverse and real. This isn't a stunt or a provocation. It's an act of defiance and vulnerability—an exercise inspired by an article in the feminist magazine Ms. that urged women to reclaim their bodies and confront the shame society taught them to feel.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of Australia's best novels then disappeared for decades. Even she wasn't sure why

Elizabeth Harrower produced timeless novels exploring emotional tyranny and female psychological struggle, later withdrawing from publishing and rediscovered in her eighties.
fromArchitectural Digest
4 months ago

Brigitte Bardot at Home: 15 Photos of the French Icon's Offscreen Life Through the Decades

Brigitte Bardot's image as a free spirit who defied convention made her a powerful symbol of women's liberation in the 1950s and '60s. That reputation was not just for the cameras and red carpets; it extended into her personal life and how she styled her homes. This was in sharp contrast to her upbringing as the sheltered older daughter of a bourgeois Parisian family, raised among period furniture, oriental rugs, and other markers of refinement.
Film
fromBustle
5 months ago

How To Buy Tickets For The New Broadway Play 'Liberation'

Wohl states, 'The real meaning of Women's Liberation is, to me, about treating all people equally and recognizing the dignity and humanity of every person on earth.'
Film
Independent films
fromMission Local
9 months ago

'Don't tell me who I am': S.F. artists draw inspiration from Anais Nin

Anaïs Nin is being celebrated in San Francisco through two projects, emphasizing her relevance in contemporary discussions on women's liberation.
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