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Feminism and Women’s Rights Movements
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the definition of feminism, its historical development (including three waves and cyberfeminism), and its importance in contemporary society. It details the various forms of gender discrimination and explains why specific women's rights are necessary, emphasizing that women's rights are human rights.
- Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Gender Equality
Feminist Data Manifest-No
The Feminist Data Manifest-No pairs refusal with commitment, asking how data attaches to bodies, reproduces inequality and whether people can meaningfully say no.
- Data Feminism
- Data Justice
- Digital Feminism
Child Penalties across Countries: Evidence and Explanations
Kleven and colleagues align earnings around the birth of a first child to compare mothers’ and fathers’ trajectories in six countries.
- Gender Pay Gap
- Working Mothers
- Feminist Economics
Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?
Sarah Gammage and Natacha Stevanovic ask who takes on care when wealthier countries hire migrant women and how those workers can claim labor rights. Read their argument with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Domestic Workers Convention.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Development Studies
Atlantics
AtlantiqueMati Diop links unpaid wages, migration loss and women’s desire through a ghost story in Dakar, where absent workers return and Ada seeks a life of her own.
- African Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Migration
Our Lady of the Nile
Notre-Dame du NilAtiq Rahimi adapts Mukasonga’s novel about a Rwandan girls’ school, asking how education, racial myths and belonging can become instruments of exclusion.
- Education Equality
- Race and Gender
- Colonial History
Troll Patrol: Crowdsourced Evidence of Online Abuse Against Women
Amnesty’s Troll Patrol turned crowdsourced Twitter labels into evidence of racialized abuse against women in public life - and offers a case study in the limits of samples, categories and automated inference.
- Digital Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
Me Too is a movement, not a moment
Tarana Burke traces Me Too from community organizing in 2006 to the global hashtag, centering survivor support, care after trauma and work beyond the media cycle.
- Black Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Intersectional Feminism
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
A groundbreaking work written by sex workers themselves, directly challenging mainstream feminist narratives about sex work while providing theoretical foundations and political strategies for the sex workers' rights movement.
- Radical Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
The work that makes all other work possible
In this TEDWomen talk, Ai-jen Poo frames domestic workers, nannies, caregivers, and cleaners as invisible infrastructure and argues for rights, wages, and dignity.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Labor Rights
Histories of the Transgender Child
Jules Gill-Peterson uncovers twentieth-century histories of transgender children and the medical, racial, and political systems around them.
- Trans Feminism
- Trans Health
- Youth Rights
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher analyzes how forms, product copy, defaults, and tech workplace cultures exclude gendered, racialized, and embodied difference from the “normal user.”
- Technology Critique
- Design Justice
- Gender Discrimination
Women Guardians of the Forest
Nina Gualinga starts in her grandmother’s canoe, then follows Amazonian women as they bring 22 demands on oil concessions and violence against defenders to Ecuador’s president.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Ecofeminism
The Hate U Give
Adapted from Angie Thomas's bestselling novel, follows 16-year-old African American girl Starr's journey from silence to voice after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. This coming-of-age drama deeply explores police violence, systemic racism, Black women's voices and agency, and young women's awakening and growth in social justice movements.
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.
- Disability Justice
- Care Economy
- Queer Theory
Fifty Feminist States
Amelia Hruby interviews feminist organizers and artists around the United States. Episodes on Nebraska birth work and Washington, D.C., school drinking water show how local rules and institutions shape who can get care.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Black Feminism
Rafiki
Two young women fall in love during a local election in Nairobi. Wanuri Kahiu gives their relationship shape through pauses, vivid street life, and fleeting privacy. The story that inspired the film and three Kenyan court decisions extend its question of who gets to name that relationship.
- African Feminism
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ+
Colette
A biographical drama about 19th-century French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's growth and awakening. Keira Knightley brilliantly portrays this pioneering female writer who challenged gender norms, fought for authorial credit, and explored gender fluidity in her legendary life.
- Women's Writing
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Literature
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
A critical examination of how neoliberalism has co-opted feminist discourse, transforming it from a collective movement for social justice into an individualized pursuit of personal empowerment that serves corporate interests while abandoning the vast majority of women.
- Liberal Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Cultural Critique
Talking Bodies and Sexualities
Nepali activist Bivishika Bhandari begins with her first period. A rehearsal account and her own interview about theatre in Kathmandu show what it takes to speak about bodies and what speaking publicly can cost.
- South Asian Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexuality
Roma
Writer and director Alfonso Cuarón has described Roma as a love letter to all the women who raised him. It's a beautiful rumination on all the 'hoods' women go through: girlhood, womanhood, motherhood. A domestic drama about a maid and the middle-class family she cares for in Mexico City, the story is told in crisp black-and-white, but it doesn't take long to see that a woman's work never ventures far out of the gray area.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Class Analysis
- Emotional Labor
The Favourite
Set in 18th-century British court, the power game between Queen Anne and two women - Sarah Churchill and Abigail Hill. This dark comedy explores complex themes of female power, gender politics, female friendship and competition through gorgeous visual style and sharp satire, challenging traditional gender role expectations.
- Gender Politics
- Female Friendship
- Political Participation
Trans Kids
Tey Meadow’s ethnography follows how trans children, families, clinics, and schools negotiate identity, care, and institutional recognition.
- Trans Feminism
- Youth Rights
- Family Liberation