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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
A transformative call to action for women worldwide from former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. By addressing leadership in the workplace, the balance of domestic labor, and the affirmation of personal ambition, Sandberg ignited a global 'Lean In' movement that serves as a modern business bible for women.
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill show how settler rule reshapes land, kinship, gender, and knowledge - and why feminist inclusion alone cannot undo those relations.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Settler Colonialism
Against the Madness of Manu: B.R. Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy
Sharmila Rege curates Ambedkar’s writings on Brahmanical patriarchy, foregrounding anti-caste thought as a deeply feminist critique.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
Dare to educate Afghan girls
Shabana Basij-Rasikh recalls secret schools under the Taliban’s first regime and asks how girls’ right to learn depends on families, women teachers and collective support.
- Education Equality
- Gender Equality
- Human Rights
What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms
What do women want? A critical mapping of future directions for Arab FeminismsThrough Egyptian women’s periodicals, religious interpretation and debates about reform, Mervat Hatem asks who gets to write Arab feminist history.
- Arab Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Political Participation
Women and Wars
Carol Cohn’s feminist security studies collection traces gender through war economies, sexual violence, displacement, militaries, peace processes, and postwar life.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Nationalism and Gender: Revised Edition
ナショナリズムとジェンダー 新版Ueno examines women’s incorporation into the nation, survivor testimony and feminist disputes over responsibility in the revised Japanese edition.
- Nationalism
- Citizenship
- War and Peace
Science Faculty’s Subtle Gender Biases
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male studentsAn experiment with 127 science faculty finds that identical applications receive different evaluations when assigned male or female names.
- Science Studies
- Academic Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Discrimination
Wadjda
10-year-old Saudi girl Wadjda dreams of owning a green bicycle to race with her male friend Abdullah. This groundbreaking work is the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first directed by a Saudi woman, exploring complex themes of female freedom, social constraints, and cultural transformation through a girl's desire for a bicycle.
- Gender Norms
- Cultural Identity
- Family Liberation
Sex and Desire in Hong Kong
Ho and Tsang use Hong Kong experiences to question expert authority, sexual hierarchies and research language, treating everyday accounts of desire as knowledge.
- Sexuality
- Body Politics
- Gender Norms
The Civic Origins of Progressive Policy Change
The Civic Origins of Progressive Policy Change: Combating Violence against Women in Global Perspective, 1975 - 2005Htun and Weldon compare 70 countries to explain feminist mobilization and violence policy, distinguishing policy scope from implementation.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Social Movements
- Policy Research
Wellness, Self-Care and Security: Why This Is Important to Feminism
Katherine Ronderos links personal, social and political care to show why activists’ wellbeing and security are part of sustaining feminist movements, not private concerns outside politics.
- Care Economy
- Social Movements
- Human Rights
The Attitudes That Sparked the Arab Spring
Dalia Mogahed puts Egypt’s growth figures next to people’s ratings of their lives, then turns to questions about women’s work. Read the 2012 surveys alongside the talk to see what an answer about equality measures.
- Arab Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Movements
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie examines violence against Black women and how racialized policing and punitive policy undermine their protection.
- Black Feminism
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir asks how a daughter can narrate a living mother without mistaking memory for shared truth, using comics form and psychoanalysis to examine intimacy, art, and self-making.
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Graphic Memoir
- Queer Theory
Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls
Leymah Gbowee moves from the wish to go to school to the means of staying there safely, then follows young women in Liberia as they organize to be heard at an election.
- African Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Political Participation
The Barefoot Woman
La femme aux pieds nusMukasonga remembers her mother's survival work, storytelling and an unfulfilled farewell, asking how care can be honored without making sacrifice women's duty.
- African Feminism
- Life Writing
- Motherhood
Do Labor Market Opportunities Affect Young Women’s Work and Family Decisions? Experimental Evidence from India
Jensen’s village experiment tests how recruiting support for Indian women changes employment, training, marriage and childbearing over three years.
- Economic Empowerment
- Labor Rights
- Research Methods
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
This groundbreaking book introduces the concept of ‘emotional labor’ through an examination of how service workers, particularly flight attendants, are required to manage their emotions as part of their job. Hochschild explores how capitalism commercializes human feelings and the gendered implications of emotional work in the modern economy.
- Emotional Labor
- Workplace Equality
- Gender Norms
On the Edge
Sur la plancheKilani's Tangier noir follows women whose factory work, restless movement and inventive speech complicate the promise that mobility brings freedom.
- Women's Cinema
- Arab Feminism
- Class Analysis
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India
A study of randomly reserved council leadership in India examines how repeated exposure to women in power changes girls’ aspirations, schooling and domestic work.
- Political Participation
- Education
- Gender Stereotypes
Suite for Barbara Loden
Supplément à la vie de Barbara LodenNathalie Léger entwines film description, biographical fragments and a mother-daughter exchange to ask how to approach a woman without appropriating her story.
- Women's Literature
- Women's Cinema
- Life Writing
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Anzaldúa writes across languages and borders to examine how mestiza consciousness challenges fixed identities and exclusionary forms of belonging.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Postcolonial 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