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Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
María Lugones develops coalition as a situated practice: remembering plural selves, reading resistance across social worlds, and changing the relations that make oppression seem inescapable.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
The Dialectic of Sex
A radical feminist masterwork proposing that technological revolution in reproductive control is key to women's liberation, offering a feminist transformation of Marxism.
- Radical Feminism
- Marxist Feminism
- Reproductive Autonomy
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
As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability
McRuer reads As Good As It Gets to show how queer and disabled characters become resources for a heterosexual protagonist’s transformation - and how able-bodied and heterosexual norms reinforce each other.
- Crip Theory
- Ableism
- Disability Justice
Resisting Medicine, Re/modeling Gender
Dean Spade examines medical evidence as a gate to legal recognition, asking how access to bodily support can be secured without compulsory gender conformity.
- Trans Feminism
- Medical Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
“Under Western Eyes” Revisited
“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist StrugglesMohanty connects curricula, global capitalism and transnational solidarity, asking how differences can remain visible without making common politics impossible.
- Transnational Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Education
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
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its OthersLila Abu-Lughod examines rescue rhetoric around Afghanistan, connecting cultural difference to political history and responsibilities for global injustice.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Religion and Gender
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
Unwanted Pregnancy: Health and Social Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean
El embarazo no deseado: impacto sobre la salud y la sociedad en América Latina y el CaribeAna Langer’s 2002 regional review connects unwanted pregnancy with reproductive preferences, unequal contraceptive access and nonconsensual sex.
- Reproductive Rights
- Women's Health
- Economic Empowerment
Nickel and Dimed
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaJournalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States, revealing the brutal reality of low-wage labor and the struggle for survival.
- Labor Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Capitalism Critique
The Beauty Myth
Exposes how beauty standards have become a new tool for controlling women, analyzing the impact of consumer culture on women's bodies and psyche.
- Third Wave Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
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
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
Participatory Exclusions: Community Forestry and Gender
Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual FrameworkAgarwal shows how community forestry can enlist women’s work while excluding their decisions, distinguishing membership, consultation and real influence.
- Political Participation
- Environmental Justice
- Gender Discrimination
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios
A Latina feminist collective uses testimonios to connect life stories, academic institutions and collaborative knowledge without erasing differences.
- Latina Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Knowledge Production
Legally Blonde
A groundbreaking comedy film where Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods challenges stereotypes about blonde women. This 2001 film deeply explores female intelligence, workplace discrimination, and multiple facets of feminism through the story of a fashion-conscious girl entering Harvard Law School.
- Media Representation Critique
- Education Equality
- Female Friendship
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave: Related by Herself
Mary Prince’s 1831 narrative links enslavement to bodily labor, family separation, marriage, and constrained freedom, while its editorial framing raises questions about testimony and authority.
- Women's History
- Colonial History
- Race and Gender
All About Love
Redefining the meaning of love, exploring how love can become the foundation for resisting oppression and building a just society, proposing an ethic of love as the core of social transformation.
- Black Feminism
- Ethics of Care
- Emotional Labor
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan's 1963 book describes the discontent of postwar U.S. housewives and helped draw readers into the second-wave movement. This guide examines its influence alongside the limits of a framework centered on white, middle-class experience.
- Second Wave Feminism
- Family Liberation
- Liberal Feminism
Happening
L'ÉvénementAnnie Ernaux revisits her 1963 illegal abortion through memory and writing, examining the body, law, class, and the silence surrounding the experience.
- Body Politics
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Rights