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Wild
A biographical drama adapted from Cheryl Strayed's memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon as a woman who hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone. This 2014 film deeply explores themes of female self-redemption, identity reconstruction, and independent survival in a male-dominated world.
- Family Liberation
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
The first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave, this groundbreaking 2014 work chronicles the women's liberation movement from 1966-1971. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film brings to life the activists who fought for employment equality, reproductive rights, and sexual liberation, while honestly addressing the movement's struggles with race, class, and homophobia.
- Second Wave Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Reproductive Justice
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein argues that climate crisis is not a single environmental issue but a challenge to market ideology, fossil capital, and extractivism.
- Climate Justice
- Capitalism Critique
- Social Movements
Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee’s memoir examines violence, trauma, forgiveness, and becoming a man from a trans masculine perspective.
- Trans Masculinity
- Trauma and Healing
- Patriarchy Critique
The Keeping Room
At the end of the American Civil War, three women living alone on a desolate Southern farm must fight to defend themselves against two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the Union Army. This revisionist feminist western reexamines the brutality of war from a female perspective, exploring complex themes of women's self-defense rights, racial relations, and survival instincts.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Race and Gender
- Historical Context
Bad Feminist
A collection of essays that explores the complexities of contemporary feminism with humor and honesty, acknowledging that feminists can be contradictory and imperfect.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Pop Culture Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
We Should All Be Feminists
Nigerian writer Adichie's pamphlet expanded from her TED talk redefines 21st-century feminism through personal experiences and sharp observations, making this concept more accessible and relatable.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Women's Literature
Gender, War, and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg offers an accessible but rigorous account of how gender orders shape the causes, conduct, narration, and aftermath of war.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Gender Politics
The Babadook
A widowed single mother Amelia and her young son confront the mysterious terror creature Babadook in their home. This Australian psychological horror film breaks traditional gender stereotypes in horror cinema, exploring profound themes of loss, grief, maternal stress, and women's inner darkness from a mother's perspective.
- Motherhood Critique
- Mental Health
- Family Liberation
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Cynthia Enloe makes international politics visible through women working in tourism, domestic labor, diplomacy, military bases, and export economies.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- Globalization
Karukku
Bama’s Karukku begins from Tamil Dalit Christian women’s experience to write caste, religious institutions, education, and self-recovery in conflict.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
Men Explain Things to Me
A modern feminist classic that deeply explores the phenomenon of 'mansplaining' and its impact on women. Solnit's sharp writing reveals gender power relations in everyday life, providing important perspectives for understanding contemporary women's circumstances.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Cultural Critique
- Feminist Literary Criticism
I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much
In this TEDxSydney talk, Stella Young critiques inspiration porn and the way nondisabled society consumes disabled people as objects of moral uplift.
- Disability Justice
- Media Representation Critique
- Ableism
A Feminist Voyage through International Relations
J. Ann Tickner reflects on twenty-five years of feminist IR, from reformulating realism and security to methodology, 9/11, religious violence, race, and empire.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Feminist Theory
- International Context
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
A transgender rights activist's autobiographical work that explores the multiple meanings of feminine identity through personal growth experiences, challenging mainstream society's rigid perceptions of authenticity and femininity.
- Trans Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Women's Writing
Citizen: An American Lyric
A hybrid of prose and poetry, Claudia Rankine's memoir-like art book provides uncompromising insights into the living conditions of 21st-century Black Americans - particularly Black women. From microaggressions to intentional acts of bias, Rankine creates a taxonomy of daily offenses against Black Americans, challenging all of us to consider our own complicity.
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique
Women's Poverty
女性たちの貧困Women's Poverty is a documentary collection by NHK's 'Women's Poverty' reporting team, revealing the structural causes of women's poverty in Japanese society through in-depth interviews with impoverished Japanese women. This work breaks the myth that 'women's poverty is a personal problem,' showing how gender discrimination, non-regular employment, and gaps in social security together create women's economic hardship.
- Women's Work
- Economic Empowerment
- Class Analysis
I Got 99 Problems... Palsy Is Just One
Maysoon Zayid uses comedy to show how Palestinian, Muslim, female, and disabled identities intersect while challenging ableism in entertainment and public culture.
- Disability Justice
- Race and Gender
- Media Representation Critique
Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Religion, Law and Power
Sylvia Tamale analyzes how colonial law, organized religion, nationalism, and contemporary politics manufacture supposedly timeless African sexual norms and police nonconforming bodies.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Queer Theory
Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation
Simpson rethinks education through Nishnaabeg knowledge, centering land, story, embodied practice, relational accountability, and Indigenous resurgence.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Land-Based Education
- Indigenous Sovereignty
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod dismantles the rescue narrative that turns Muslim women into a uniform victim class and uses their suffering to authorize war, humanitarian intervention, and moral superiority.
- Arab Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Religion and Gender
Reproductive Justice
Luna and Luker review reproductive justice through law and society scholarship, showing how the framework reshapes research on reproductive rights, health, intersectionality, movements, and state power.
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Rights
- Legal Reform
Precarious Japan
Anne Allison’s ethnography follows post-bubble stagnation, irregular work, lonely death, and post-Fukushima life to examine what happens when stable family and male-breadwinner institutions unravel.
- Capitalism Critique
- Economic Empowerment
- Ageism and Gender
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The moving memoir of the girl who fought for her right to education and survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban at age fifteen. A powerful record of life in Pakistan's Swat Valley, family bonds, and the courage of an individual standing against extremist oppression.
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements