2000 CAREER BABES

Inspired by the way post-feminist women had subverted idealised, sexually
objectifying mass media and advertising images of femininity in order to
compete and succeed in contemporary society, Career Babes and Sports
Career Babes defined many of the social, political and sexual themes that
still run through my work. Now and again, over the past decade, I have
revisited the series to re-examine its central themes and to review my
feelings about them. The original Career Babe series was a reaction to the
Girl Power movement of the late '80s and early '90s, with its slogan, Girls
Can Do Anything (later appropriated by Mattel when they re-launched the
Barbie doll).