McCann added that "while we had 'girl power' in the 1990s, and films like Legally Blonde in the 2000s, there hasn’t really been a cultural moment ready to embrace hyper-femininity and feminism ...

There has long been held a false belief by many that feminism and femininity are mutually exclusive, but Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argues that the opposite is true, saying that the two actually ...

And so there's this feminist critique of Barbie as representing patriarchal femininity. And then there's feminist defense of Barbie as representing a Girlboss feminism. I hate both of those.

Feminism has belittled motherhood as a product of “the patriarchy,” and family building as oppressive, especially in Neeleman’s case. These are lies intended to undermine femininity ...

Under patriarchy, women were told to harden to survive. Now, reclaiming softness isn’t surrender—it’s rebellion. Here’s why the Divine Feminine is rising.

First, it’s important to consider the role the predecessor of toxic femininity—“toxic masculinity”—has played in U.S. culture. Clinical psychologists, academics and feminist advocates have used the ...

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures In 1963, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique irrevocably altered the cultural landscape. Credited with sparking second-wave feminism, the book explored the ...