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Moana
Disney's 2016 animated masterpiece tells the adventure story of Polynesian teenager Moana who saves her homeland. Voiced by Auli'i Cravalho, this film breaks from traditional Disney princess formulas with no romantic subplot, focusing instead on themes of female empowerment, cultural identity, and environmental protection.
- Cultural Identity
- Ecofeminism
- Family Liberation
Women as Wartime Rapists
Laura Sjoberg examines rare but revealing cases of female perpetrators of wartime sexual violence and how law and media make sense of them.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
Feminist Data Visualization
D'Ignazio and Klein bring feminist theory into data visualization, proposing ways to redesign data expression around power, affect, embodiment, positionality, and uncertainty.
- Data Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Data Justice
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
82년생 김지영Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is a novel by Korean author Cho Nam-joo, telling the life story of an ordinary Korean woman Kim Ji-young from birth to motherhood. This work reveals deep-rooted gender discrimination in Korean society through understated narrative, sparking widespread discussion about women's situations in Korea and throughout East Asia.
- Gender Norms
- Women's Work
- Family Liberation
Burning Birds
Davena VihagunSet amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.
- South Asian Feminism
- Feminist Security Studies
- Economic Empowerment
The Bacchus Lady
죽여주는 여자An older sex worker in a Seoul park is drawn into poverty, illness, and requests for death. E J-yong returns aging from demographic abstraction to class, gender, care, and survival.
- Ageism and Gender
- Sex Worker Rights
- Care Economy
Queen of Katwe
Directed by Mira Nair, this biographical drama tells the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a young girl from the Katwe slum in Kampala, Uganda, who becomes a world-class chess champion. The film explores poverty, gender expectations, and the power of intellectual empowerment in the face of systemic barriers.
- Cross-Cultural Feminism
- Education Equality
- Economic Empowerment
Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway proposes making kin and the Chthulucene, asking readers to stay with multispecies responsibilities rather than flee into rescue stories.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil explains how scoring, prediction, and risk models amplify existing inequalities across work, education, finance, and policing.
- Algorithmic Bias
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
10 Principles of Disability Justice
Sins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.
- Disability Justice
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
A landmark collection by survivors, organizers, and community workers asking how social justice movements can confront intimate violence and build accountability without relying on police and prisons.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
Lullaby
Chanson douceInspired by a true story, this Goncourt Prize-winning novel tells a chilling tale about the relationship between a 'perfect nanny' and her employer family. Slimani explores boundaries of class, race, and motherhood with sharp, cold prose, revealing deep societal rifts hidden beneath urban life's calm surface.
- Class Politics
- Motherhood
- Care Economy
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Carceral Feminism
It Ends with Us
A brave and heartbreaking contemporary novel exploring the thin line between love and violence, and the courage required to break the cycle of domestic abuse spanning generations. Based on a true story, it is a tale of difficult choices, resilience, and the power of self-love.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Women's Literature
- Women's Rights
Convenience Store Woman
コンビニ人間Convenience Store Woman is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. The protagonist, Keiko Furukura, is a 36-year-old woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years and has no interest in society's expectations for women - marriage, children, a 'real' career. With dark humor, the novel sharply questions society's definition of 'normal' and its oppression of women who don't conform.
- Gender Norms
- Body Politics
- Cultural Critique
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
Rape During Civil War
Dara Kay Cohen uses comparative data to explain why some armed groups perpetrate wartime rape at massive scale while others do not.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- War and Peace
- Feminist Security Studies
Sex Object: A Memoir
A raw and unflinching memoir detailing how women are treated as 'sex objects' from a young age and the deep scars this leaves on their self-perception, relationships, and mental health. A leading voice in contemporary feminism, Valenti indicts the essence of misogyny in modern society through her own experiences.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
Ali Wong's groundbreaking comedy special Baby Cobra features her performing at seven months pregnant, using sharp humor to challenge Asian American female stereotypes and explore gender discrimination, motherhood penalty, and workplace inequality.
- Feminist Comedy
- Asian American Women
- Motherhood
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy’s polemic links state, family, and religious control over women’s bodies across the Middle East and North Africa while forcing debate about anger, generalization, and the politics of speaking for a region.
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Politics
Confirmation
This HBO television movie stars Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, a law professor whose story of sexual harassment is worth revisiting through a post-#MeToo lens. This film dives into one of recent American history's watershed moments, chronicling the testimony given before the nation regarding the sexual harassment of women in the workplace.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Political Participation
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Liberating 'motherhood' from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
- Race and Gender
Ending Violence against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context
A study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights