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Blog Entries by Prue Watson from 01/2012

A Friend, a Feminist, an Icon? Margaret Thatcher, I Think Not.

| Posted 01.06.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: The Iron Lady, Politics, Film, Feminism, Margaret Thatcher, UK Entertainment, UK Film, UK Film Reviews, UK Entertainment News

The Iron Lady is out. And it is apparently (I have yet to see it), hailing Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon through its focus on gender and class. Yet she could not have been more removed from the aims, passions and identity of women's solidarity.

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The Age Old Conquest to Make Barbie a Real Woman

| Posted 01.18.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Women, Facebook, Capitalism, Barbie, Advertising, Feminism, Bald Barbie, Girls, Mattel, Body Image, UK Women, Cancer, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

Barbie doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So when a company is selling thousands of dolls a week, do we continue to embrace it while trying to change its culture, or completely ignore it? I can't decide.

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The Perfect Body?

| Posted 01.22.2012 | Huffington Post
Read More: Plastic Surgery, Advertising, Kelly Brook, New Look, Body Image, UK Celebrity, UK Media, Feminism, Ulrika Jonsson, UK Lifestyle, Huffington Post News

Loving your body, be you man or woman, should be intrinsic. Loving your body shouldn't be split by those who have the perfect curves and those who don't. Take note Ulrika Jonsson.

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