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The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence
Anna Aizer uses California data from 1990 - 2003 to estimate how relative wage opportunities relate to women’s hospital admissions for assault.
- Gender Pay Gap
- Violence Against Women
- Feminist Economics
No Logo
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand BulliesNaomi Klein's seminal manifesto against corporate globalization analyzes the shift from manufacturing products to marketing brands, exposing the hidden costs of consumer culture on labor rights, public space, and individual choice.
- Consumerism Critique
- Globalization
- Corporate Power
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
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
An Indian quota study separates recognition of women leaders' competence from liking them, showing why reduced bias need not mean prejudice has disappeared.
- Political Participation
- Gender Stereotypes
- Policy Research
The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie examines how narrative power turns one experience into a group’s complete identity, including through her own mistakes.
- Media Representation Critique
- Decolonial Feminism
- Women's Writing
A Stranger Silence Still: The Need for Feminist Social Research on Climate Change
Sherilyn MacGregor argues that climate research cannot be gender-neutral: its framing, everyday effects, and policy responses all require feminist social analysis.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
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
Two wages paid across borders and a mother’s calls to her daughter give Hochschild ways to ask who buys care time and how families sustain intimacy at a distance.
- Care Economy
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
The Women's Room
Marilyn French's bestselling 1977 novel follows Mira Ward from postwar marriage and unpaid domestic work back to Harvard, asking how economic dependence, women's solidarity, sexual violence, and race shape feminist freedom.
- Feminist Fiction
- Marriage Critique
- Identity and Selfhood
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
Patriarchy and Capitalism
家父長制と資本制Patriarchy and Capitalism is a representative theoretical work by Japanese feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno, systematically analyzing how patriarchy and capitalism operate together as two exploitation systems, causing double oppression of women. This book is a classic text of Marxist feminism, invaluable for understanding the economic significance of women's unpaid domestic labor.
- Marxist Feminism
- Women's Work
- Feminist Theory
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou recounts a Black girlhood shaped by racism, sexual violence, and abandonment, tracing how memory and language help form a self beyond imposed silence.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Women's Literature
Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History
Fraser asks how feminist critiques of the family wage and state power could be repurposed to legitimate insecure work and neoliberal reform.
- Feminist Economics
- Capitalism Critique
- Care Economy
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Using historical trends, surveys, and interviews, Wei-hsin Yu explains how work institutions and care responsibilities compound gender inequality across women’s lives in Japan and Taiwan.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- East Asian Feminism
The Milk of Sorrow
La teta asustadaA dying mother sings about the war. Her daughter Fausta takes a job in a pianist's house to pay for a burial, and her own melody finds a very different audience.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Trauma and Healing
Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family
Musawah’s global report draws on submissions from groups in thirty countries. Morocco’s family-law reforms and marriage registration in Britain show how different procedures shape access to protections.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Family
From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of US Reproductive Rights Organizing
Luna follows SisterSong through its newsletter and a march negotiation to see how immigrant rights and parenting entered a U.S. reproductive agenda.
- Reproductive Justice
- Women of Color Feminism
- Reproductive Rights
Coloniality and Gender
Colonialidad y géneroLugones asks how colonial rule constituted gender itself, and why anticolonial struggles can still disregard violence against women within their communities.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
Women Migrant Workers: CEDAW General Recommendation No. 26
Recommendation No. 26 follows departure, transit, employment and return, connecting recruitment debt, dependent status, labor-law exclusions and barriers to complaint.
- Migration
- Workplace Equality
- Legal Equality
Feminism and War
Feminism and War: Confronting US ImperialismThis collection examines how the United States legitimates war through “women’s liberation” and connects antiracist feminism to anti-imperialist organizing.
- Imperialism Critique
- Transnational Feminism
- Militarism
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins links Black women’s knowledge and self-definition to resistance and social justice, examining work, family, motherhood, and controlling images.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
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
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