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A Woman's Story
Une femmeAnnie Ernaux’s account of her mother’s life connects intimate memory to class, social mobility, aging, and the difficult work of mother - daughter remembrance.
- Women's Literature
- Family Liberation
- Body Politics
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Crenshaw's groundbreaking 1989 paper that introduced the 'intersectionality' framework, revealing how Black women are marginalized in antidiscrimination law and feminist movements.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Hans Morgenthau's Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation
Tickner rereads Morgenthau's six principles of political realism through feminist international relations theory, challenging masculinized assumptions about power, interest, rationality, and security.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
This influential essay explores gender as a performative act rather than a natural given, drawing on phenomenological theory to argue that gender identity is constituted through repeated stylized acts. Butler challenges essentialist notions of gender and proposes that gender is continuously constructed through performance within regulatory frameworks.
- Gender Identity
- Feminist Theory
- Gender Norms
Bargaining with Patriarchy
Kandiyoti examines women’s strategies within unequal household arrangements, showing why accommodation, resistance and promised security change with context.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Roles
- Class Analysis
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
This groundbreaking paper redefines the concept of objectivity, proposing 'situated knowledges' as a third way between traditional scientific objectivity and relativism. Haraway argues that all knowledge comes from specific positional perspectives, advocating for 'feminist objectivity' - a form of knowledge production that acknowledges partiality, location, and embodiment.
- Feminist Epistemology
- Science Studies
- Postmodern Feminism
Sultana's Dream
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 feminist science-fiction story turns gendered access to education, public space, and science into a speculative experiment - and asks whether knowledge will serve everyday life or militarized power.
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Fiction
- Feminist Education
Toward an Afro-Latin-American Feminism
Lélia Gonzalez examines the abolition centenary, racism by omission and being spoken for to challenge the construction of a common female experience.
- Black Feminism
- Latin American Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
Amefricanity as a Political-Cultural Category
A categoria político-cultural de amefricanidadeGonzalez develops amefricanity through language, racial whitening and cultural creation, asking who can name the Americas and their Black diasporic histories.
- Black Feminism
- Colonial History
- Cultural Critique
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Spivak asks how intellectual representation, colonial archives and readings of women's bodies determine whose speech becomes a political claim.
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Subaltern Studies
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Canadian avant-garde cinema mostly seen and analyzed by college students, Patricia Rozema's fairy-tale whimsy, about an artist on her journey to self-discovery, is one you should seek out - particularly because it's made by a fantastic team of women.
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Art
- Intersectional Feminism
Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care
Tronto challenges care as an innate female morality, asking how class, race and public institutions organize caring responsibilities and the boundaries of concern.
- Care Economy
- Gender Roles
- Political Consciousness
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
Carol Cohn's fieldwork traces how U.S. nuclear strategists' euphemisms, sexualized metaphors, and domestic imagery make mass violence appear technical, controlled, and rational.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
Doing Gender
This article proposes an understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction.
- Gender Socialization
- Gender Identity
- Feminist Theory
Brazilian Women's Letter to the Constituent Assembly
The collective letter connects women's political voice to family authority, labor, care and bodily autonomy, demanding democracy in the institutions of everyday life.
- Political Participation
- Labor Rights
- Domestic Labor
Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Spillers reads slavery’s naming and kinship relations against accounts that blame Black women for family disorder, asking how a person becomes a recognized subject.
- Black Feminism
- Body Politics
- Race and Gender
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Lugones connects playful travel between social worlds with loving perception, while refusing the demand to enter hostile worlds without protection.
- Race and Gender
- Gender Identity
- Political Consciousness
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Scott turns gender into a method for explaining power, connecting symbols, institutions, norms and identity while questioning historians’ own categories.
- Feminist Theory
- Historical Context
- Gender Studies
Learning from the Outsider Within
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist ThoughtPatricia Hill Collins connects Black women’s marginal positioning to self-definition, interlocking oppression and the production of knowledge.
- Black Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
- Race and Gender
Women on the Line
An Australian feminist current-affairs program connecting gender, work and public policy through community radio, with a featured episode on platforms and AI regulation.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Political Participation
- Capitalism Critique
The Creation of Patriarchy
Traces the origins and development of patriarchy from a historical perspective, providing crucial understanding of the historical roots of gender oppression.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Historical Context
- Radical Feminism
I Speak for My Difference
Pedro Lemebel’s 1986 manifesto confronts the Chilean left with poverty, queer exclusion and revolutionary masculinity, refusing solidarity on condition of self-erasure.
- Queer Feminism
- Latin American Feminism
- Socialist Feminism
The Color Purple
Whoopi Goldberg brings Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel to life as Celie, a Southern Black woman who has suffered abuse for decades. A project brought to a hesitant Steven Spielberg by producer Quincy Jones, the film was the director's first with a female lead.
- Black Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Female Friendship
Desperately Seeking Susan
A bored housewife becomes fascinated by the free-spirited lifestyle of mysterious Susan and embarks on an adventure of mistaken identity. This 1980s film by a female director uses humor and wit to explore themes of female identity, self-discovery, and breaking free from social constraints.
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Critique
- Pop Culture Feminism