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Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste, Class and State
Uma Chakravarti reads early Indian sources to show how endogamy, women's sexuality, class, and state power shape caste reproduction - and where the evidence resists a single history.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Caste and Gender
- Historical Context
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Gloria Steinem links self-esteem to self-authority and public power, moving through childhood, bodies, and love to ask how people regain room to act within unequal relations.
- Feminist Theory
- Identity and Selfhood
- Psychology
Stone Butch Blues
An enduring monument in transgender and lesbian history. Set in 1950s - 70s America, it tells the story of Jess Goldberg’s lonely struggle on the boundaries of gender, the solidarity of the working class, and an unyielding spirit in pursuit of personal truth.
- Women's Literature
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
From Servitude to Service Work
From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive LaborEvelyn Nakano Glenn traces the racial division of paid reproductive labor and examines how hierarchy changes when household services enter institutions.
- Reproductive Labor
- Race and Gender
- Care Economy
A League of Their Own
The late Penny Marshall directed this gem about the very first female professional baseball league. Geena Davis stars as the World War II - era catcher fighting the patriarchy, and Tom Hanks plays the cranky team manager with a heart of gold. As inspirational as it is just plain entertaining, the film encourages female viewers young and old to embrace the champion stifled inside each one of us.
- Sports Equality
- Historical Context
- Workplace Equality
The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
Bina Agarwal grounds gender and environmental politics in rural India's unequal access to land, forests, water, labor, and decision-making - rather than an assumed female affinity with nature.
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Ecofeminism
- Environmental Justice
Orlando
Adapted from Virginia Woolf's novel, this tells the legendary life story of immortal aristocrat Orlando spanning four centuries, experiencing a gender transformation from male to female during this journey. This pioneering work explores gender fluidity, identity formation, and patriarchal oppression of women through poetic cinematic language.
- Gender Identity
- Queer Theory
- Trans Feminism
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
枕草子 (Makura no Sōshi) / The Pillow BookWritten around 1000, The Pillow Book turns lists, poems, and courtly fragments into a woman's literary authority - while revealing the elite world that both enabled and limited that voice.
- Women's Literature
- Women's Writing
- Women's History
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
This groundbreaking 1991 article systematically articulates intersectionality theory, analyzing how race, gender, and other identity dimensions interact to shape the unique experiences of violence faced by women of color. Crenshaw critiques how anti-discrimination law and feminist movements fail to adequately address multiply-marginalized groups, calling for more inclusive frameworks of social justice.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Thelma & Louise
Two ordinary women - housewife Thelma and diner waitress Louise - embark on a weekend trip that turns into a fugitive journey after killing in self-defense. During their cross-country road trip, they experience a transformation from fear to liberation, ultimately choosing freedom over surrender.
- Radical Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
The Egg and the Sperm
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female RolesEmily Martin examines gendered stories in reproductive science and asks why replacing the passive egg with an aggressive heroine may preserve the metaphor.
- Science Studies
- Gender Stereotypes
- Body Politics
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi traces how 1980s media turned shaky claims about marriage, fertility and work into stories that feminism had made women unhappy. Winner of the 1991 NBCC Award for Nonfiction.
- Feminist Theory
- Cultural Critique
- Media Representation Critique
Feminism Confronts Technology
Judy Wajcman uses factories, housework, reproductive technology, and urban space to show that gender shapes technology while machines, skills, and infrastructure stabilize power.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash makes women’s memory and migration a question of historical authorship through nonlinear time, an unborn child and the material traces of slavery.
- Black Feminism
- Memory
- Race and Gender
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered OrganizationsJoan Acker shows how apparently neutral jobs presuppose workers freed from care, connecting organizational rules, interactions and embodied lives.
- Workplace Inequality
- Sexual Division of Labor
- Feminist Theory
The Handmaid's Tale
Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a future dystopian society where women are reduced to breeding tools. It profoundly depicts women's oppression under patriarchy and the power and price of resistance.
- Radical Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Reproductive Autonomy
Women, Culture & Politics
An important collection of speeches and essays by veteran political activist Angela Y. Davis, focusing on transformations in conversations about sexism, racism, and economic equality in the late 20th century. From stories of female circumcision in Egypt to examinations of rap lyrics, to the personal politics of race, Davis's sharp and accomplished essays establish her place among the important contemporary feminist voices.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras
Gloria Anzaldúa’s 1990 anthology challenges who gets to make feminist theory, bringing poetry, memoir, fiction, art, and scholarship into a coalition built across difference.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Chicana Feminism
- Latina Feminism
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein’s 1990 anthology maps ecofeminism through spiritual, theoretical, womanist, environmental, development, and artistic debates - without resolving their differences.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Theory
- Spiritual Feminism
Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images
This chapter from Collins’ seminal book *Black Feminist Thought* analyzes the controlling images of Black womanhood in U.S. culture - such as the mammy, matriarch, welfare queen, and jezebel - and how these stereotypes function to justify intersecting systems of race, gender, and class oppression. Collins argues that these images are ideological tools used to regulate Black women’s labor, sexuality, and social roles.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
This groundbreaking 1990 essay provides a feminist critique of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. Fraser introduces the concept of 'subaltern counterpublics' to reveal the exclusionary nature of the bourgeois public sphere, arguing for the necessity of multiple publics and offering a new theoretical framework for understanding democratic participation and social justice.
- Liberal Feminism
- Political Participation
- Cultural Critique
Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability
Wendell begins from disability as socially constructed from bodily reality, asking how ideals of bodily control, productivity, and independence shape feminist body politics.
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Disability Justice
- Ableism
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
A creative memoir that weaves together Chinese legends, family storytelling, and American reality to depict the complex identity and silent struggles of a second-generation Chinese immigrant. A soulful record of breaking silence with words and winning back one's own story through the image of a warrior like Mulan.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- International Context
Woman-Nation-State
Nira Yuval-Davis and Floya Anthias’s edited volume examines how nationalism, state formation, family policy, and women’s political roles shape one another.
- Nationalism
- Gender Politics
- Political Participation