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Climate change and women's health: Impacts and policy directions
Sorensen and colleagues trace gendered climate - health risks and propose linking health, gender, energy and disaster policy through participation and shared indicators.
- Women's Health
- Climate Justice
- Environmental Justice
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Hannah Gadsby's groundbreaking comedy special Nanette revolutionized the form of stand-up performance, weaving humor with rage to address gender violence, trauma, and identity, becoming a landmark in contemporary feminist culture.
- Feminist Comedy
- LGBTQ+ Representation
- Trauma and Healing
Necrobiopower: Who Can Inhabit the Nation-State?
Necrobiopoder: Quem pode habitar o Estado-nação?Bento links reproductive law, imprisonment and police records to ask how the Brazilian state sustains life and produces death.
- State Violence
- Reproductive Justice
- Race and Gender
To the Lighthouse
A masterpiece of modern literature that captures the passage of time, lost years, and the completion of art through the innovative technique of 'stream of consciousness.' Deep insights into motherhood, marriage, and female creativity are poetically rendered alongside beautiful Scottish seaside landscapes.
- Women's Literature
- Cultural Critique
- Historical Context
The Sexual Contract
Pateman asks how agreements between formally free people can establish authority over bodies, work and marriage, rather than guarantee equality.
- Feminist Political Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Labor Rights
The Prisons We Broke
Baby Kamble’s memoir treats “prison” as a structure built by caste, poverty, religious discipline, and household patriarchy together.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to IncarcerationMimi E. Kim traces how U.S. feminist anti-violence politics became entangled with criminalization - and how women-of-color feminist movements developed restorative and transformative alternatives.
- Transformative Justice
- Carceral Feminism
- Prison Abolition
How Pakistani Women Are Taking the Internet Back
Nighat Dad traces a line from being monitored through a phone to setting up Pakistan’s cyberharassment helpline. Its first-year report shows how confidentiality and follow-up affect access to help.
- South Asian Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Technology Critique
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
Recorded while Ali Wong was pregnant with her second child, this special uses breastfeeding, marriage and care work to question who pays for choices between family and career.
- Feminist Comedy
- Motherhood
- Working Mothers
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
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Through her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Historical Context
The Standing Rock Resistance and Our Fight for Indigenous Rights
Anishinaabe attorney and organizer Tara Houska places resistance to the Standing Rock pipeline in a longer history of Indigenous land, sovereignty and cultural continuance, challenging accounts that reduce environmental struggle to a single protest.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Environmental Justice
Our fight for disability rights - and why we're not done yet
Judith Heumann connects her struggle for education and public participation with the Section 504 protests, showing how collective organizing turns a legal promise into an enforceable right.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Human Rights
The Crisis in Modern Masculinity
This article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Anti-Feminism Studies
- Cultural Critique
Feminist in a Software Lab
Through the making of Vectors and Scalar, Tara McPherson asks whether feminism can inhabit databases, interfaces, collaborative labor, and software architecture - not only content.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Media Literacy
Gender, Disasters and Climate: CEDAW Recommendation 37
CEDAW connects disaster risk with participation, accessible warnings, protection from violence and healthcare, treating equality as an institutional responsibility.
- Climate Justice
- Legal Equality
- Disability Justice
Zapatista Women’s Opening Address to the 2018 Encounter
The collective address begins with health care, cleaning and shared space, showing that political autonomy depends on labor and does not erase differences between women.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Social Movements
- Care Economy
RBG - Official Trailer
The 2:36 official trailer for the 2018 documentary RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. This guide reads its promotional framing - not the full 98-minute film - through feminist questions about legal change, celebrity, and collective action.
- Legal Equality
- Second Wave Feminism
- Political Participation
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the StoryA ground-breaking investigation into how deep-seated gender bias has permeated the scientific community, leading to long-standing 'scientific' misconceptions about women's capabilities. Spanning biology, psychology, and anthropology, Angela Saini reveals the true nature of women supported by the latest research.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Legal Equality
“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”
“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic PainFrom matching cases of neck pain to waits for analgesia, this review traces where gendered expectations enter care and what different research designs can establish.
- Gender Norms
- Gender Discrimination
- Mental Health
Programmed Inequality
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingMar Hicks traces how British institutions classified women’s computing expertise as low-status labor, then built a prestigious field that excluded the workers on whom it depended.
- Digital Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Historical Context
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
Buolamwini and Gebru audit commercial gender classifiers, showing how overall accuracy conceals unequal errors across skin-type and gender groups.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Intersectional Feminism
Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?
Rosen and Twamley’s collection asks how women’s and children’s justice can be pursued together, without erasing either carers’ labor or children’s agency.
- Family Liberation
- Care Economy
- Motherhood Critique
How to Have a Healthier, Positive Relationship to Sex
Sex educators Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi use humor to question sexual shame and rigid scripts, inviting viewers to place pleasure, communication and autonomy back in their own embodied experience.
- Sexuality
- Sexual Liberation
- Sexual Politics