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The Oscar nominations are out. The big story, however, isn’t about the people who were shortlisted. It’s about the people who weren’t. The female director of Barbie, Greta Gerwig, has been left off the Best Director list – while the film’s star, Margot Robbie, has missed out on Best Actress.

Films should be judged on their merits, not their message, and that is exactly what the Academy has done

Barbie was hailed by some critics for its feminist message but it is Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken, who has been nominated for best supporting actor while lead Margot Robbie failed to get a mention.

Sexism row brews after Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig miss out on individual recognition

Breaking the cycle of abuse, trauma, and addiction requires a radically new relationship with society and with the more-than-human world.

Thomas F. Lee and Steven Guerriero will join forces Oct. 22 to discuss “Laudato Si,” the document in which Pope

Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and author of ‘Composing a Life,’ dies at 81 Matt Schudel Mary Catherine Bateson, an anthropologist and writer of wide-ranging interests whose books included a memoir about her parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and another book about how women “compose” their lives through a series of conflicting responsibilities, died Jan. 2 at a hospice facility in Dartmouth, N.H. She was 81. She had a fall in the pr...

Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81; anthropologist on the lives of women By Penelope Green New York Times,Updated January 16, 2021, 3:42 p.m. Email to a Friend Mary Catherine Bateson in her yard in Hancock, N.H., on Aug. 12, 2010. Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives — and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America — died on Jan. 2 at 81.Trent Bell/NYT Mary Catherin...