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Gender, War, and Militarism
Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via assemble seventeen interdisciplinary feminist essays on how gender organizes military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
Nimo's War, Emma's War
Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through the lives of four Iraqi women and four American women rather than through official military strategy.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Imperialism Critique
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
A foundational interdisciplinary collection defining feminicide as structural gendered violence sustained not only by perpetrators but by state impunity, racial capitalism, and transnational economies.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
An edited collection on social justice, citizenship, and democratizing struggles led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Justice
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
A. Revathi’s autobiography records gender, family expulsion, labor, survival, and dignity in hijra communities, bringing South Asian trans experience into feminist mapping.
- Queer Theory
- Caste and Gender
- Trans Feminism
A Stranger Silence Still
A Stranger Silence Still: The Need for Feminist Social Research on Climate ChangeMacGregor critiques the absence of feminist social analysis in climate change research and calls for attention to power, subjectivity, care, consumption, and political agency.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Embrace your inner girl
In this TEDIndia talk, playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores the concept of the 'girl cell' - a universal source of empathy, vulnerability, and strength that society teaches us to suppress. Through global stories of resilience, she argues that embracing this inner girl is key to healing and transformation.
- Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
Jennifer's Body
High school cheerleader Jennifer becomes possessed by a demon after being sacrificed by a male band seeking fame, then begins hunting the town's men. This initially misunderstood horror-comedy gained critical reappraisal during the MeToo era, recognized as a feminist horror film ahead of its time that explores toxic masculinity, complex female friendship, and gender violence under patriarchy.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Female Friendship
- Queer Feminism
Love and Gold
Hochschild explains global care chains through the story of a Filipina migrant nanny: wealthy countries receive care while sending communities absorb care drain and emotional displacement.
- Care Economy
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Urmila Pawar weaves family, education, marriage, and movement work into a life history that shows how caste enters the body and intimate life.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
Introduction to Security Studies: Feminist Contributions
Sjoberg surveys how feminism reshapes security studies by shifting attention from states and war alone to bodies, everyday violence, gender order, wartime sexual violence, and global power.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
A raw and powerful record of a girl growing up amidst poverty, violence, and rigid social expectations in Jamaica, winning her freedom through poetry and her own voice. It reveals the truth behind the illusion of 'paradise' while exploring biracial identity, sexuality, and the reclamation of self.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Wei-hsin Yu compares half a century of women’s employment in Japan and Taiwan, showing why organizational arrangements, industrial policy, and life-course institutions matter beyond shared patriarchal culture.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- East Asian Feminism
The Milk of Sorrow
La teta asustadaThrough an Indigenous Peruvian woman living with inherited fear, the film examines how wartime sexual violence survives in bodies, households, music, and unequal relations of service.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Trauma and Healing
Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family
Built from reports by groups in thirty countries, Musawah’s global study argues that unequal Muslim family laws are historically constructed and therefore open to reform grounded in faith, rights, constitutions, and lived reality.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Family
From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of US Reproductive Rights Organizing
Zakiya Luna analyzes how women of color organizations pushed US reproductive rights organizing from individual choice and legal rights toward an intersectional reproductive justice framework.
- Reproductive Justice
- Women of Color Feminism
- Reproductive Rights
Feminism and War
This collection shows how the United States legitimates war through “women's liberation,” joining antiracist and anticapitalist feminism to occupation, torture, economic warfare, and transnational resistance.
- Imperialism Critique
- Transnational Feminism
- Militarism
Sangati: Events
Bama replaces the solitary heroine with a collective life of Dalit women, making labor, violence, laughter, language, and intergenerational memory the substance of grassroots feminism.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals
Gail Omvedt traces five centuries of anti-caste social visions, from Bhakti traditions to Phule, Periyar, and Ambedkar.
- Caste and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
- Historical Context
Wendy and Lucy
Director Kelly Reichardt recruits Michelle Williams for her character study mapping out the evolution of homelessness and destitution. With nothing but her pup Lucy, Williams's Wendy fights to survive in a recession-era landscape. Like all of Reichardt's characters, she is flawed, willful, and above all, strong.
- Economic Empowerment
- Mental Resilience
- Feminist Art
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
A monumental collection of Alison Bechdel’s beloved comic strip, documenting twenty-five years of lesbian lives, relationships, and politics with wit, heart, and incisive humor.
- Radical Humor
- LGBTQ+
- Comics
A Forgotten Liberator: The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule
Through biography, letters, poetry, and student writing, this collection reconstructs Savitribai Phule’s anti-caste pedagogy and asks why her thought was excluded from national and feminist histories.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Education
- Historical Context
The Years
Les AnnéesA collective autobiography capturing the passage of time in French society from the post-war period to the present. A masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winner, inventing a new form of impersonally intimate narrative.
- Memoir
- History
- Class Analysis