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The Vegetarian
채식주의자The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.
- Body Politics
- Violence Against Women
- Mental Health
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
INCITE! centers women of color to connect interpersonal violence with policing, colonialism, militarism, and reproductive control.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Carceral Feminism
It Ends with Us
A brave and heartbreaking contemporary novel exploring the thin line between love and violence, and the courage required to break the cycle of domestic abuse spanning generations. Based on a true story, it is a tale of difficult choices, resilience, and the power of self-love.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Women's Literature
- Women's Rights
Convenience Store Woman
コンビニ人間Convenience Store Woman is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. The protagonist, Keiko Furukura, is a 36-year-old woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years and has no interest in society's expectations for women - marriage, children, a 'real' career. With dark humor, the novel sharply questions society's definition of 'normal' and its oppression of women who don't conform.
- Gender Norms
- Body Politics
- Cultural Critique
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
Rape During Civil War
Dara Kay Cohen compares 91 civil wars and three field cases to examine how forced recruitment, armed-group cohesion, and wartime rape reports relate - and where that explanation reaches its limits.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- War and Peace
- Feminist Security Studies
Contradictions of Capital and Care
Fraser traces care crises through family wages, dual-earner households and global care chains, asking how social protection can support autonomy as well as care.
- Marxist Feminism
- Care Economy
- Economic Empowerment
The Beauty of Being a Misfit
A literary prize brought Lidia Yuknavitch meetings she could scarcely imagine. She follows the delay between receiving an invitation and learning to take it up.
- Women's Writing
- Mental Health
- Identity Formation
Heian Literature and Japanese Court Women
An Ohio State teaching video introduces Heian court literature through Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shōnagon. It is an accessible orientation, best paired with close reading on language, class, and historical difference.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Women's Writing
Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
Ali Wong's groundbreaking comedy special Baby Cobra features her performing at seven months pregnant, using sharp humor to challenge Asian American female stereotypes and explore gender discrimination, motherhood penalty, and workplace inequality.
- Feminist Comedy
- Asian American Women
- Motherhood
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy connects control over women’s bodies at home, in public, and through the state, then asks what a sexual revolution can mean without flattening the Middle East into one story.
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Politics
Confirmation
This HBO television movie stars Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, a law professor whose story of sexual harassment is worth revisiting through a post-#MeToo lens. This film dives into one of recent American history's watershed moments, chronicling the testimony given before the nation regarding the sexual harassment of women in the workplace.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Political Participation
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Liberating ‘motherhood’ from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
SCUM Manifesto
Valerie Solanas's infamous 1967 manifesto is a scathing, satirical, and radical feminist text that calls for the elimination of the male sex and the overthrow of the government.
- Radical Humor
- Radical Feminism
- Satire
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris examines how school discipline, policing, and neglected trauma push Black girls out of education and toward confinement.
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
- Race and Gender
Ending Violence against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context
Conny Roggeband compares Brazil and Uruguay to trace how women’s movements shaped a regional treaty and how domestic institutions changed its reach after ratification.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
The Reporting System That Sexual Assault Survivors Want
Jessica Ladd separates recording, reporting and conditional matching, asking how survivors can control information without treating design as proof of safety.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Design Justice
- Data Justice
Rural Women’s Rights: CEDAW Recommendation 34
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 34 follows water collection, participation, social protection, and land approvals to explain what it takes for rural women to exercise their rights.
- Women's Rights
- Care Economy
- Policy Research
Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection
Reshma Saujani uses electoral defeat and coding classrooms to distinguish inability from hiding unfinished work, connecting courage with support and institutions.
- Education Equality
- Gender Socialization
- Science Studies
Globalization and Militarism
Cynthia Enloe follows sneaker subcontracting, gendered humiliation in detention and camouflage in wardrobes. The second edition gives readers a way to trace the different routes by which militarism enters everyday life.
- Militarism
- Globalization
- Labor Rights
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India
This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.
- Ecofeminism
- Climate Justice
- Decolonial Feminism
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
She argues that femininity is not inherently weak but is devalued in patriarchal society.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
The Witch
The VVitch: A New-England FolktaleA 17th-century New England folktale from Robert Eggers, this spooky picture is more than a supernatural horror - it's an exercise in female rebellion during a time when anyone 'different' was declared a witch.
- Radical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
Dorothy Roberts examines genetic questionnaires and clinical measurements, distinguishing the study of racism from race as a biological shortcut.
- Science Studies
- Race and Gender
- Women's Health