Female in the frame
This year’s Academy Awards Best Actress nominations reveal the gendered nature of the power relations that stubbornly endure in our culture
02 March 2025 - 00:00
Four of the five actors nominated in this year’s Academy Awards Best Actress category played characters in films focusing on societal pressures for women to conform to a stereotypical image of attractiveness — and how that pressure is internalised and then manifested. ..
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