Kilbourne and other leaders in media activism appear in Miss Representation along with Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Condoleeza Rice, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem and Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker to make the argument at the heart of the media activist movement: society measures a woman's value by her physical attractiveness and not in her capacity for leadership.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Mr Nowak told the court he had rung Miss Wells-Burr's mother Jane when her daughter had failed to turn up to work.

BBC: Catherine Wells-Burr

The alluring Miss O'Sullivan nicely matched the Jane of the Burroughs books.

ECONOMIST: Maureen O��Sullivan

Jane Henson helped design many puppets for the hit TV show, whose characters include Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, and also worked as a puppeteer.

BBC: Muppets designer Jane Henson dies