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The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba
A comparative study asking what women contribute to revolutions - and what revolutionary movements, victories, defeats, and transitions subsequently do to women and feminist politics.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Socialist Feminism
Moolaadé
Four girls threatened with cutting seek sanctuary from Collé, turning one courtyard into a conflict over women’s authority, collective resistance, and the power to redefine tradition.
- African Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
How Sex Changed
Joanne Meyerowitz writes a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States.
- Trans Studies
- Historical Context
- Trans Health
Iron Jawed Angels
Katja von Garnier made this Golden Globe winner, about the women who risked their lives for the suffrage movement. It stars Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, and Vera Farmiga.
- First Wave Feminism
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
Caliban and the Witch
A groundbreaking feminist re-examination of capitalist primitive accumulation that reveals how violent control over women's bodies became foundational to capitalist development.
- Marxist Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Historical Context
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
This anthology reframes globalization through women's migration, domestic work, sex work, and care deficits, showing how household convenience in wealthy countries depends on emotional and bodily labor from the Global South.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
TechnoFeminism
Judy Wajcman rejects technological determinism and argues that technology and gender are co-produced social relations.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Technology Critique
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Deeply analyzes how patriarchy harms men, explores how men can participate in feminist movements, and advocates for building new masculinity based on love and equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Men's Rights Movement Critique
- Ethics of Care
The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace
Cockburn places domestic, street, nationalist, military, and postwar gendered violence on a single continuum, challenging the false separation of war/peace and public/private harm.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way
Obioma Nnaemeka theorizes African feminist agency through negotiation, give-and-take, and the strategic navigation of institutions rather than a universal script of confrontation.
- African Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Decolonial Feminism
Transnational Migration: Bringing Gender In
Pessar and Mahler move migration studies away from neutral accounts of households or labor flows toward a gendered analysis of power, asking how transnational spaces shape resources, obligations, belonging, and agency.
- Migration
- Transnational Feminism
- Gender Politics
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis’s classic short book denaturalizes prisons as historical institutions and asks readers to imagine justice and safety beyond incarceration.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Black Feminism
Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader
Through bilingual writing, art, testimony, and paired responses, this interdisciplinary reader stages Chicana feminist debates over history, borders, sexuality, class, and representation.
- Chicana Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Race and Gender
Feminism without Borders
Chandra Talpade Mohanty moves from a critique of the Western gaze to anticapitalist solidarity, grounding transnational feminism in history, labor relations, and shared struggle.
- Transnational Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Global Feminism
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
Uma Chakravarti reads caste not as a simple social hierarchy, but as a historical order sustained through control of women’s sexuality, marriage, and inheritance.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
Maria Lugones collects influential essays on plural identities, coalition, travel between worlds, and decolonial feminist resistance.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability
McRuer connects queer theory and critical disability studies, arguing that compulsory able-bodiedness and heteronormativity jointly produce normal bodies, normal desires, and acceptable life.
- Crip Theory
- Ableism
- Disability Justice
Frida
Frida Kahlo's famous self-portrait, with that thick unibrow and unwaxed upper lip, has become an iconic symbol of feminism. Julie Taymor's biopic takes us behind the canvas to reveal the artist, the activist, the revolutionary. And knowing what we do now about lead actor Salma Hayek's off-screen experience, this film proves an even greater victory.
- Cultural Identity
- Feminist Art
- Bodily Autonomy
Real Women Have Curves
18-year-old Mexican-American Ana García struggles between her college dreams and traditional family expectations. This groundbreaking independent film explores themes of body autonomy, cultural identity, class mobility, and intergenerational conflict through a Latina lens, becoming a milestone in the body positivity movement and Latina feminist cinema.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
The madness known as the 'ideal womanhood' imposed on American women throughout the 20th century. This sociological entertainment dismantles etiquette education, strange beauty regimens, and patriarchal social expectations through extensive archival research and sharp humor.
- Cultural Critique
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
This Bridge We Call Home
A large anthology of radical visions for transformation that extends bridge-building feminist politics across difference.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Coalition Politics
- Chicana Feminism
Whale Rider
Girls aren't allowed to be Whangara chiefs. But that's not acceptable to Paikea (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the 11-year-old powerhouse who believes her destiny is to ride whales and lead her tribe. Courage, leadership, and defiance are all at play in this Kiwi drama from Niki Caro.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Political Participation
- Cultural Identity
Bend It Like Beckham
A British comedy-drama about two girls pursuing their football dreams, exploring gender expectations in South Asian immigrant families, cultural conflict, and women's participation in sports. Gurinder Chadha's groundbreaking film profoundly depicts women's struggles and growth in male-dominated sports.
- Sports Equality
- Cultural Identity
- Immigrant Identity
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
miriam cooke reads Muslim women’s literary and public interventions as the making of Islamic feminism, a contested space in which religious belonging and demands for gender justice are claimed together.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Women's Literature