The Institute of Feminist and Gender studies would like to congratulate one of its doctoral students, Darby Babin, for their recent publication, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Feminist Theory.
Drawing on Jack Halberstam’s concept of gender failure, the article examines the use of the gender binary in the popular film, asking questions about the the “role of whiteness in the acceptance of the non-normative characters in Barbie”, such as Weird Barbie.
Full article: Genderqueer reflections on Weird Barbie