Breaking the Glass Slipper

The Bechdel-Wallace test


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Back in 1985, Alison Bechdel had the characters of her cartoon strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, jokingly make a gender equality ‘test’ for films. 33 years later, the Bechdel (or Bechdel-Wallace, to give credit to her friend Liz Wallace for the idea) test is still used to determine whether a film has any claim to […]

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Breaking the Glass SlipperBy Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom