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Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls
Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee argues that girls do not need abstract praise but sustained investment, truthful education, and adults willing to transfer opportunity and power.
- African Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Political Participation
Soongava: Dance of the Orchids
Nepal’s pioneering lesbian feature follows a dancer and her lover confronting arranged marriage, family authority, and the scarcity of social space in which queer intimacy can become ordinary life.
- South Asian Feminism
- Lesbian Feminism
- Queer Theory
Feminism and Migration
A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.
- Migration
- Transnational Feminism
- Labor Rights
My Brilliant Friend
L'amica genialeMy Brilliant Friend is the first book in Italian author Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan Novels'. Set in a poor neighborhood in post-WWII Naples, the novel follows two girls - Elena and Lila - depicting their complex friendship spanning half a century. It is a story about how women depend on, compete with, and try to master their own destinies in a violent male world.
- Female Friendship
- Class Analysis
- Education
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Saba Mahmood’s ethnography of Cairo’s women’s mosque movement challenges feminist theories that recognize agency only as resistance to norms and asks how ethical subjects are formed through embodied religious practice.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Feminist Disability Studies
Edited by Kim Q. Hall, Feminist Disability Studies systematically links feminist theory and disability studies, examining embodiment, ability norms, public policy, representation, sexuality, and public life as co-producers of gendered and disabled inequality.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Philosophy
Circumstance
Director Maryam Keshavarz's coming-of-age drama focuses on a wealthy Iranian family, particularly headstrong teenager Atafeh whose relationship with her friend Shireen evolves from friendship into romance and even eroticism, alongside her brother's journey from recovering drug addict to religious extremist. This vibrant exploration of sexual rebellion showcases high school protagonists confronting patriarchal oppression, culminating in a penetrating examination of women's treatment under Iranian theocracy.
- Queer Theory
- Anti-Feminism Studies
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
Moving Toward the Ugly
Mingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.
- Disability Justice
- Body Politics
- Queer Theory
How to Be a Woman
A hilarious and heartfelt memoir-manifesto that blends personal experience with feminist theory, exploring what it means to be a modern woman with unapologetic humor.
- Radical Humor
- Feminism
- Memoir
Ecofeminism Revisited
Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist EnvironmentalismGaard responds to anti-essentialist critiques of ecofeminism and argues for retaining its ability to connect gender, race, class, colonialism, species, and environmental justice.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Virtue and Vulnerability
Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on Women, Gender and Climate ChangeArora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Gender Politics
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
Mia Mingus introduces access intimacy: the bodily ease, trust, and relational safety that can emerge when someone deeply understands and respects a disabled person's access needs.
- Disability Justice
- Care Economy
- Emotional Labor
I Will Follow
If you can't get something done, do it yourself. Ava DuVernay took this adage to heart and wrote, directed, produced, and financed this family drama about a woman grieving the death of a loved one. It made just a blip on the box office radar, but her debut feature offers a peek at the woman behind the camera.
- Black Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
- Feminist Art
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice
Mia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.
- Disability Justice
- Social Justice
- Community Activism
Feminist Security Studies
Annick T. R. Wibben reconstructs security through narrative theory, asking who may tell threat stories and whose experience state-centered accounts exclude.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Feminist Epistemology
- War and Peace
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Queer Theory
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
Dalit Women Speak Out: Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Based on 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four Indian states, this study shows how gendered violence enforces caste, class, land, and political power - and follows survivors into exclusionary justice institutions.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Anti-Sexual Violence
A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty
Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan use stark images, satire, and historical narration to remake Jotiba Phule’s Slavery while weaving Savitribai’s struggle back into anti-caste thought.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Art
- Historical Context
The Queer Art of Failure
Halberstam challenges success standards in heteronormative capitalist society, exploring the productive potential of failure as a form of resistance. Through analysis of popular culture and queer theory, the author proposes 'low theory' as a mode of thinking and writing, redefining failure not as deficiency but as a strategy for subverting mainstream values.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Capitalism Critique
Thinking Out Loud About Feminism
Through a fictional roundtable dialogue, this article explores the diverse perspectives, internal tensions, and the profound impact of race, class, and gender identity on contemporary feminism.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Gender Equality
- Queer Theory
The VAMP/SANGRAM Sex Workers’ Movement
This movement case study shows how sex workers in southwest India built collective leadership, challenged police violence and rescue politics, and forced feminist organizations to confront their own moral boundaries.
- South Asian Feminism
- Sex Worker Rights
- Labor Rights
This isn't her mother's feminism
In this TEDWomen talk, Courtney E. Martin reflects on the evolving meaning of feminism across generations. Through personal narrative and cultural critique, she explores three paradoxes that define her generation’s feminist identity, emphasizing the tension between tradition and innovation, idealism and pragmatism.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Identity Formation
Women, Wartime and the Dream of Peace
Zainab Salbi redirects attention from war’s front line to the women who maintain daily life, survive gendered violence, and are then excluded from formal peace negotiations.
- Arab Feminism
- War and Peace
- Care Ethics
Misogyny
女ぎらい：ニッポンのミソジニーMisogyny is a major work by Japanese sociologist and feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno. The book deeply analyzes the pervasive phenomenon of misogyny in Japanese society, revealing how it exists in various hidden forms within families, workplaces, romantic relationships, and even within women's own consciousness. It is essential reading for understanding the mechanisms of misogyny in East Asian patriarchal societies.
- Feminist Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Norms