The British anti-child abuse advocacy group Kidscape is pissed off that Gwyneth Paltrow hawks bikinis for four to eight year-olds in her latest GOOP newsletter. She captioned images of the swimwear, a collaboration with designer Melissa Odabash and exact replica of adult bikinis sold on the site, that it's "great for…

The late Helen Gurley Brown lived like Peggy, but she plotted like Joan. When she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, she was in her forties, and had been married for years. But that didn't stop her from crafting a book that helped rewrite the Old-Maid-at-Twenty-Three world of being a single lady in the 1960s. The book's…

It didn't take long for some to start trashing the legacy of Helen Gurley Brown after the Cosmo editor died earlier this week at 90 years old. It doesn't even make sense that anyone would question her legitimacy as a pioneer of the women's movement or even her credibility as a self-proclaimed feminist. Let's face it,…

Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who retired in 1997 but remained "Editor in Chief for Cosmopolitan International" and came into her pink corner office almost every day, passed away today at age 90.

Most women we know can only stomach Cosmpolitan Magazine if they read it ironically and pretend it's The Onion for ladies. (How are tips like "Draw an attention-grabbing circle around your nipples using rhinestones and body glue for a special night in" not genius parody? Ugh.) But to say the maniacally sex-obsessed…

The producer of films such as Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy, and Cocoon, and the author of five books. he and Gurley were married over 50 years. He suggested she write Sex And The Single Girl and wrote Cosmo coverlines. [Variety]

Caitlin Flanagan is back, defending marriage against all those who would destroy it. The villains this time: John Edwards's "minx" Rielle Hunter, and onetime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.

Lillian Bassman is hard to define: a pioneering fashion photographer who objected to the politicization of the 1960s, an artist who destroyed all her own work, a free-thinker who objected to the women's movement.

Can't afford a bra? Try band-aids over your nipples! Questionable tips like that abound in this quiz, based on Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl. [NYT]

In Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Jennifer Scanlon tries hard to make Helen Gurley Brown look like an unjustly overlooked feminist icon — and she kind of succeeds.