Toxic femininity is a term I’ve heard quite a bit, but never understood just how much it affects women today, including me. Toxic femininity refers to the idea that women should adopt feminine ...

When we watch films and television shows that are period pieces, we see the idea of feminine purity and how strongly it must ...

The curator of an exhibit on gender-bending fashion at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has some ideas. For 100 years, women have embraced fashion that was once only considered appropriate for men, like ...

Academia is a notoriously accepting of eccentricities and informalities, yet I always dress professionally on campus, as do my female colleagues. In contrast, certain men in my department are famous ...

Frida Kahlo used Tehuana dress, a traditional Zapotec attire, to express feminine strength and identity. Kahlo's Tehuana clothing choices were influenced by her Zapotec mother and her photographer ...