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Mary G. Lord (born November 18, 1955) is an American author, cultural critic, and investigative journalist. She was a political cartoonist and columnist for Newsday. She is an associate professor of the practice of English at the University of Southern California.

She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.

Early life and education

Lord was born in 1955 and grew up in southern California. Her father was a rocket engineer and her mother, although a chemistry graduate, "quit work to keep house for my father".

Lord has a BA (1977) in politics, the graphic arts and letters from Yale University and an MFA (2016) in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. While a student, she was a cartoonist for the Yale Daily News. After graduating, she worked drawing political cartoons for the Wall Street Journal, then the Chicago Tribune, and then moved to Newsday.

Books

• The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice (2012) (about Elizabeth Taylor)
• Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science (2005)
• Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (1994) (About the Barbie doll)
• Mean Sheets: Political Cartoons by M.G. Lord (1982)

Book chapters

• Lord, M.G. (2012). "Cold Warrior's Daughter". In Westwick, Peter J. (ed.). Blue sky metropolis: the aerospace century in Southern California. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press ISBN 978-0-87328-249-9.

References

1. ^ "Esquire Register: The Best of the New Generation of Men and Women under Forty Who Are Changing America". Esquire. December 1984.
2. ^ "M G Lord". USC Dornsife. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
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4. Detrow, Scott (July 16, 2023). "New podcast miniseries is packed with little-known Barbie history". NPR. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
5. ^ "Blue Sky Metropolis". MG LORD. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
6. Reviews for The Accidental Feminist:
   • "The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice". Publishers Weekly. October 31, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
   • Bonos, Lisa (2023-05-20). ""The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice" by M.G. Lord". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
   • "The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice". Kirkus Reviews. November 5, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Lieberman, Rhonda (May 2012). "The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice". Bookforum. Vol. 19, no. 1. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Lewis, Andy (February 21, 2012). "Hollywood's Influence, Analyzed". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Foran, Chris (February 19, 2012). "Book review: Liz Taylor as 'The Accidental Feminist'". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Kopun, Francine (March 24, 2011). "Elizabeth Taylor, the accidental feminist". Toronto Star. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Schwarzbaum, Lisa (February 24, 2012). "The Accidental Feminist (2012)". Entertainment Weekly. No. 1195. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Broussard, Meredith (March 18, 2012). "Elizabeth Taylor, subversive feminist". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Schillinger, Liesl (February 5, 2012). "Smoldering Subversive: M.G. Lord sees feminist themes in the roles of Elizabeth Taylor". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Levin, Ann (February 5, 2012). "Elizabeth Taylor a feminist? Author insists it's partly true". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Levi, Lawrence (March 7, 2012). "'Feminist' Elizabeth Taylor; eyeing Harpo Marx". Newsday. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
7. Reviews for Astro Turf:
   • "ASTRO TURF: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Publishers Weekly. November 22, 2004. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Lyden, Jacki (March 5, 2005). "'Astro Turf': A Memoir of the Cold War". NPR. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Culick, Fred E.C. (January 23, 2005). "'Foot soldiers' in America's space race". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Kirkus Reviews. May 19, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Seaman, Donna (December 1, 2004). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science/Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons". The Booklist. Vol. 101, no. 7. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Kiss, J.Z. (June 2005). "Astro turf: the private life of rocket science". Choice Reviews. Vol. 42, no. 10. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Goldberg, Cait (April 9, 2005). "ASTRO TURF: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Science News. Vol. 167, no. 15. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Tytell, David (August 2005). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science/Pathways to the Planets: Memoirs of an Astrophysicist". Sky and Telescope. Vol. 110, no. 2. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Brightman, Carol (May 2005). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Artforum. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Haas, Anne (July 2005). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Discover. Vol. 26, no. 7. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Blanchard, Douglas P. (February 2006). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Physics Today. Vol. 59, no. 2. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Beck, Jana (January 2005). "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science". Library Journal. Vol. 130, no. 1. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • See, Carolyn (January 28, 2005). "Celestial Gravitation". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Callen, Kate (January 23, 2005). "Flight Patterns". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Landis, Geoffrey A. (August 2005). "The Three Rocketeers". American Scientist. Vol. 93, no. 4. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Bortz, Fred (February 6, 2005). "Gender, politics & the launch of rocketry". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Upchurch, Michael (December 1, 2004). "Rocket Men". The American Scholar. Vol. 74, no. 1. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Kross, John F. (Summer 2005). "Book Review: Astro Turf". Ad Astra. p. 42. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Stockwell, Anne (May 10, 2005). "Personal space". The Advocate. No. 938. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Herbert, Roy (February 2, 2005). "Astro Turf by M G Lord". New Scientist. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
8. Reviews for Forever Barbie:
   • "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll". Publishers Weekly. October 31, 1994. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Thompson, Torri L. (July 16, 1998). "Barbie's Queer Accessories, and: Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (review)". The Lion and the Unicorn. 22 (1): 129–135. doi:10.1353/uni.1998.0007. S2CID 144890081 – via Project MUSE.
   • Savan, Leslie (December 11, 1994). "You've Come a Long Way, Barbie". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll". Kirkus Reviews. September 15, 1994. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (November 17, 1994). "A Mere Plaything, or a Goddess for Her Time?". New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Spindler, Amy M. (February 5, 1995). "Bless Her Pointy Little Feet". New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • McKechnie, Rhiannon (2006). "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. By M. G. Lord". Ethnologies. Vol. 28, no. 2. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
   • Koestenbaum, Wayne (Summer 1995). "Doll Parts". Artforum. Vol. 33, no. 10. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
   • "She Has Everything". American Heritage. Vol. 46, no. 1. February 1995. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
   • Cooper, Ilene (October 1, 1994). "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by M. G. Lord". The Booklist. Vol. 91, no. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Jonte, Dawna Lee (Summer 1995). "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by M. G. Lord". Belles Lettres. Vol. 10, no. 3. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Schnurnberger, Lynn (December 19, 1994). "Picks & pans -- Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by M. G. Lord". People Weekly. Vol. 42, no. 25. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Pela, Robert L. (October 18, 1994). "I-doll-atry". The Advocate. No. 666. p. 75. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
   • Boris, Eileen (March 13, 1995). "Girls and dolls". The Nation. Vol. 260, no. 10. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Prentice, Susan (Spring 2006). "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll". Herizons. 19 (4): 36–37. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Rafelman, Rachel (July 15, 1995). "The livin' doll of a generation". Toronto Star. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Caldwell, Gail (November 27, 1994). "Major Barbie". Boston Globe. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
   • Holt, Patricia (December 13, 1994). "Hail Barbie, icon of female culture". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.
9. "Paperbacks: New and noteworthy". The New York Times. 1982-10-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-17.

Further reading

• Lanham, Fritz (March 15, 2005). "Engineer's daughter looks at dad, masculinity, aerospace field". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
• Ulin, David L. (January 23, 2005). "Talking With M.G. Lord, Cultural Historian Of The Space Age, The Rocket Scientist's Daughter". Newsday. Retrieved August 8, 2023 – via ProQuest.
• Weinreich, Regina (December 18, 1994). "'Real' Barbie Finds a Real-Life Advocate". New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
• Martin, Sandra (September 2, 2004). "Psychoanalyzing Barbie". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
• Wiser, Nanette (December 29, 1994). "To author, Barbie forever dressed in controversy". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
• Cline, Lynn (November 26, 1999). "M.G. Lord Leaps From Plastic To Propulsion". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved August 9, 2023 – via ProQuest.

External links

• Official website
• "M. G. Lord". C-SPAN.

• Living people
• 1955 births
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• American cartoonists
• American film and television podcasters
• American women cartoonists
• American women podcasters
• Newsday people
• University of Southern California faculty
• Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni
• Yale University alumni