Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Assistant Professor of History at The New School in New York City. She is the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford, 2015), and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Huffington Post. Her latest research focuses on the emergence of wellness culture in the United States since 1950. She tweets from @nataliapetrzela.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
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Do We Need Wonder Woman?
My two-year-old daughter plays on the beach in a tiny red, white, and blue swimsuit, her chest emblazoned with winged yellow Ws that need no explanation. At a glance, the suit appears of a piece with the branded Dora the Explorer and Mermaid Ariel gear sported by fellow toddlers frolicking on the shoreline. Unlike her […]
