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Mossane
Safi Faye's film places a girl's desire against marriage as family exchange, while refusing to reduce her adolescence to a lesson about African tradition.
- African Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Women's Cinema
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye’s invented archive asks who can make Black lesbian history credible, linking documentary conventions, licensing costs and unequal queer intimacy.
- Black Feminism
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ+
Dalit Women Talk Differently
Gopal Guru’s 1995 EPW essay links Dalit women’s autonomous organizing to caste-shaped knowledge, gendered exclusion within Dalit politics, and the conditions of feminist solidarity.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women
The 1995 declaration joins collective self-determination and land rights with bodily autonomy, freedom from violence and women’s political participation.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Political Participation
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1995 Beijing speech links violence, reproductive decisions and political participation, while raising questions about representation.
- Human Rights
- Women's Rights
- Transnational Feminism
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
A record of the soul's cry and intellectual legacy of Black women thinkers from the 19th century to the present. A monumental anthology that can be called a canon of Black Feminism, gathering the ‘Words of Fire’ spoken to shatter the triple constraints of racism, sexism, and class oppression.
- Black Feminism
- Women's History
- Race and Gender
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity
Amina Mama traces how psychology helped construct the racialised ‘Other’, then develops a Black feminist account of subjectivity through the histories, conversations and relationships of Black women in Britain.
- African Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Clueless
A "way existential" 1990s time capsule of fashion, pop culture, and Valley girl verbiage, Amy Heckerling's rom-com riff on Jane Austen's Emma celebrates female friendship and sexuality, and it puts a woman's self-fulfillment above finding a man. Even if "fulfillment" technically includes finding a man.
- Third Wave Feminism
- Female Friendship
- Identity Formation
Women and War
Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the myths of men as just warriors and women as beautiful souls in Western political imagination.
- War and Peace
- Gender Politics
- Feminist Political Theory
African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation
Gwendolyn Mikell’s 1995 essay examines African feminist politics through representation and democratic agency, asking who has authority to define women’s political agendas.
- African Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
Little Women
Feminism isn't just about women kicking ass - it's also about allowing us the freedom to be who we want. For the protagonist sisters in Gillian Armstrong's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel, that means a writer, a musician, a housewife, and a free spirit.
- Identity Formation
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Literature
After the Family Wage
After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare StateNancy Fraser compares universal breadwinning, caregiver parity and universal caregiving to rethink the distribution of income, time and care.
- Feminist Economics
- Care Economy
- Reproductive Labor
The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy
Jane S. Jaquette's seven-country collection follows Latin American women's organizing from anti-authoritarian resistance into democratic politics.
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation
- Democracy
Belém do Pará Convention
The 1994 inter-American convention connects public, private and state violence against women to prevention, remedies and due diligence.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
- Latin American Feminism
Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective
Young uses seriality to explain how women can be socially connected by institutions and practices without sharing one identity or experience.
- Feminist Political Theory
- Identity Politics
- Gender Identity
Women’s Charter for Effective Equality, South Africa
The Women’s National Coalition’s 1994 charter links family, work, culture and state power, asking why identical treatment does not always deliver substantive equality.
- Political Participation
- Human Rights
- Care Economy
A Comparison Between Women and Men
Strī-purusha tulanāIn this 1882 Marathi polemic, Tarabai Shinde turns public blame over widowhood into a challenge to men's unequal claims to moral authority and freedom.
- Women's Literature
- Women's Rights
- Caste and Gender
My Words to Victor Frankenstein
My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender RageSusan Stryker combines theory, poetry, performance and autobiography to turn transgender rage into a challenge to the conditions of exclusion.
- Trans Feminism
- Body Politics
- Political Consciousness
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
Val Plumwood dissects the masterful dualisms of Western philosophy, showing how human/nature, reason/body, and man/woman turn dependency into a warrant for control.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Philosophy
- Patriarchy Critique
Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law
The Zapatista law joins women’s public authority to bodily and household autonomy, making internal gender relations part of the revolutionary struggle itself.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
The Awakening
No feminist reading list is complete without this 1899 novella. This early proto-modernist story follows Edna Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans housewife who begins to contemplate what life might offer beyond her narrow roles as wife and mother.
- First Wave Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Women's Literature
The Joy Luck Club
Adapted from Amy Tan's novel, this film tells the stories of four pairs of Chinese-American mothers and daughters across two generations. Through complex mother-daughter relationships, it explores cultural inheritance, transmission of women's experiences, and identity issues in cross-cultural contexts.
- Family Liberation
- Intersectional Feminism
- Immigrant Identity
The Piano
Never one to succumb to labels, pioneering filmmaker Jane Campion delivers a love story about a mute woman whose erotic affair has life-altering repercussions. And even though Campion would probably fight us on this, one can't help but spot and appreciate what seems to be a feminist vision.
- Female Desire
- Sexual Liberation
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Susan Brownmiller's 1975 classic feminist work was the first to define rape as a political tool rather than simply a sexual crime, profoundly revealing the systemic nature of rape as a means of patriarchal control over women, and remains one of the most influential works of second-wave feminism.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Theory
- Patriarchy Critique