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Women and Health: CEDAW General Recommendation No. 24
Recommendation No. 24 connects health access to consent, confidentiality, transport, cost and state duties, without reducing women’s health to pregnancy and childbirth.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Gender Discrimination
Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
In this 1998 EPW essay, Sharmila Rege asks how Dalit women's situated experience can become collective feminist knowledge without turning identity into either silence or an unquestionable credential.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
The Space Between Us
Cynthia Cockburn examines women’s cooperative projects in Belfast, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to ask how democracy can cross conflict without erasing difference.
- Nationalism
- War and Peace
- Transnational Feminism
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Bodily Autonomy
Mulan
Disney's animated classic 'Mulan' tells the story of ancient Chinese woman Mulan who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army. The film breaks from traditional Disney princess frameworks, creating a brave, independent female character who dares to challenge gender norms.
- Feminist Art
- Bodily Autonomy
- Patriarchy Critique
The Handmaid's Tale
In Atwood’s dystopia, Gilead assigns women ranked roles through reproductive control. Offred’s fragmented narration traces how power reshapes identity and resistance.
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Bodily Autonomy
- Patriarchy Critique
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
Sadie Plant links feminized labor, weaving, and computing in a nonlinear network history; this reading weighs cyberfeminist possibility against essentialism and material limits.
- Cyberfeminism
- Digital Feminism
- Internet Culture
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
Edited by Daniel James and John D. French, nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship across five Latin American countries.
- Latin American Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Economic Justice
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí questions how ‘woman’ became a universal category, tracing Western gender theory through Yoruba history, language, and colonial knowledge-making.
- African Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Gender Politics
Vishaka: the 1997 workplace harassment judgment
India’s Supreme Court connected sexual harassment with equality, dignity and work, imposing preventive duties and complaints mechanisms before dedicated legislation.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Labor Rights
- Human Rights
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond
A monumental work of non-fiction intended to reclaim transgender history and pride. Covering from ancient communities to contemporary activism, it reveals through abundant illustrations how gender diversity has been suppressed and how it has been fought for with unyielding will.
- Women's History
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
A 1997 anthology maps law, labor, care, and political organizing across ten African country cases - and opens a debate about how African feminisms are defined.
- African Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
- Political Participation
Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review
Nepotism and sexism in peer-reviewWennerås and Wold compare research output, fellowship scores and professional connections, showing why expert judgment needs records that others can examine.
- Academic Patriarchy Critique
- Research Methods
- Gender Discrimination
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?Cathy J. Cohen tests queer politics through Black feminist analysis, locating coalition in relationships to power rather than a simple straight - queer opposition.
- Queer Theory
- Black Feminism
- Economic Justice
Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
A groundbreaking 1997 Hypatia paper that first systematically explored intersections between ecofeminism and queer theory, arguing inclusive environmental ethics must account for diversity of species, gender, and sexuality.
- Ecofeminism
- Queer Theory
- Queer Feminism
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from BelowAcross six cases in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile, Lynn Stephen examines how women turn survival needs into collective politics - and how alliances can enable yet constrain feminist claims.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Political Participation
Women Who Run with the Wolves
The myth of the wild woman exists in various cultures, from fairy tales to folk legends. Often she is portrayed as a fearsome being, but in Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés's assessment, she is something completely different: an inner leader and behavioral pattern capable of guiding women on their own healing journey. First published in 1992, Women Who Run with the Wolves earned Estés praise from many of her feminist contemporaries - including Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, two other authors on this list.
- Feminist Psychology
- Spiritual Feminism
- Cultural Critique
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
A foundational transnational feminist anthology tracing colonial legacies through labor, state power, erotic autonomy, Indigenous sovereignty, and grassroots democratic organizing.
- Transnational Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
Set It Off
A crime action film about four African American women from Los Angeles' underclass who team up to rob banks out of desperation. This 1996 classic powerfully depicts the triple oppression of race, class, and gender, as well as the power of female friendship in desperate circumstances, becoming a milestone in Black feminist cinema.
- Black Feminism
- Female Friendship
- Economic Empowerment
The First Wives Club
A comedy film about three middle-aged women who team up for revenge after being abandoned by their husbands. This 1996 work starring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn humorously explores the marriage crisis, age discrimination, and self-worth reconstruction faced by middle-aged women.
- Female Friendship
- Economic Empowerment
- Family Liberation
Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177)
Convention No. 177 recognizes paid production or services performed away from an employer’s premises, addressing organization, safety, remuneration and intermediary responsibility.
- Workplace Equality
- Sexual Division of Labor
- Legal Equality
Gender in Translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission
Sherry Simon's foundational work in feminist translation studies explores how gender shapes the practice of translation, arguing that translation is not a neutral act of transmission but a politically charged intervention in cultural meaning.
- Feminist Translation Studies
- Gender and Language
- Cultural Studies
Queer Theory: An Introduction
The most reliable introductory text exploring the complex and transformative lineage of 'Queer Theory.' It systematizes the field with clear and precise logic, covering identity politics, deconstruction, intersectionality with feminism, and its potential to fundamentally destabilize the definitions of sexuality.
- Cultural Critique
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba
Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula trace how Cuba’s revolution changed women’s education, health, work and family life - and why state-backed equality did not end patriarchy or unpaid care.
- Latin American Feminism
- Socialist Feminism
- Gender Politics