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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jul 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On this week’s episode of The Waves, it’s all about Barbie. Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth sits down with M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie and co-host of “LA Made: The Barbie Tapes” from LAist and So Cal Public Radio. They discuss the history of the Barbie doll and how she’s managed to endure, how Barbie might actually be feminist, and what the new Greta Gerwig movie gets right about Barbie.  

In Slate Plus: Episode 6 of our And Just Like That…recap.

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Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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Released:
Jul 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Waves is a weekly conversation about news and culture examined through the lens of gender and feminism. Every other Thursday, join the hosts—Slate staff writer Christina Cauterucci, Marcia Chatelain of Georgetown University, Thirst Aid Kit's Nichole Perkins, and Slate Podcasts' June Thomas—for frank discussions about the ways gender shapes everything. Our new name reflects generations of women from the various waves of feminism, the sound waves that carry us to your ears, and the waves we intend to make.