One woman’s journey of entrepreneurship, self-reliance, and empowerment. This week we are excited to introduce “Voices from the Field,” a blog series featuri...

The brand of feminism that obsessed over beauty and fashion is beginning to look as dated as big hair. Americans lump the last 50 years of the women’s moveme...

I am pleased to have been chosen for the Financial Times’ “Thinking Big” video series.  In this interview, you’ll see Andrew Hill asking me how I came to the...

Victoria Woodhull was the first female broker on Wall Street and the first woman to run for President. She was lost to history for 150 years because she does...

Where was this T-shirt when Liza was little? Where were these people when I was shopping for girl clothes? Pink is one of my favorite colors and I don’t mind...

Photographer Dina Goldstein has created a series The Daily Beast calls “mesmerizing.” Each photo features the life of a Disney princess after the happy endin...

An array of ordinary goods used to test whether the notion of “necessity” is an expression of gender power in Uganda. People often talk easily about the diff...

OK, I love the Disney princesses and I don’t care who knows it.  So, I got a huge kick out of Jon Cozart’s sweetly hilarious youtube video about what happens...

Suzanne Schwartz had a Fulbright Scholarship to study advertising in India during 2008/2009.  Her ethnography of the advertising agency women who produce the...

Feminists were on both sides of the camera when Cybill Shepherd became a Cover Girl in 1968. Many years ago, I wrote a chapter on the history of Cover Girl m...

The overall shape of this outfit is traditional: overblouse, trousers, scarf. However, this young woman has made it fresh and contemporary by choosing an unu...

Minnie Mouse, slimmed down and glamourous in a hot pink Lanvin dress, has body activists out in force. On November 14, Barney’s New York will open a Christma...