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The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
One of the most significant and controversial essays of second-wave feminism, published in 1968. It dismantles the myth of the 'mature female sexual response' as defined by Freudian psychoanalysis and argues, both scientifically and politically, for the importance of the clitoris as the true source of female physical pleasure. A historical manifesto for the struggle for bodily and sexual autonomy.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Social Movements
Daisies
SedmikráskyVěra Chytilová’s surrealist Czech New Wave masterpiece follows two teenage girls, both named Marie, who embark on a series of anarchic pranks and destructive games in a world going 'bad.' Through avant-garde experimentation and radical humor, the film critiques patriarchy, consumerism, and political stagnation.
- Anarchist Feminism
- Radical Humor
- Political Critique
Black Girl
La noire de…Sembène connects postcolonial mobility to racialized domestic labor, while Mbissine Thérèse Diop’s account keeps Diouana from becoming a universal emblem.
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Domestic Labor
- Migration
The Trouble with Angels
A romp through a Catholic girls' school courtesy of a pair of mischievous teens, this Hayley Mills classic is all about sisterhood. But the real feminism is happening behind the lens: Ida Lupino, the sole working female director of the '50s, was blazing a trail for the women who would follow.
- Female Friendship
- Political Participation
- Identity Formation
The Bell Jar
A 20th-century feminist literary classic that reveals the psychological predicament and social oppression faced by women in the 1950s through semi-autobiographical narrative, profoundly exploring the relationship between mental illness and gender constraints.
- Women's Literature
- Second Wave Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
Cléo from 5 to 7
Cléo de 5 à 7Across ninety minutes in Paris, Varda turns a singer’s fear into a question of looking, listening and living with uncertainty beyond the demand to remain beautiful.
- Body Politics
- Female Friendship
- Identity and Selfhood
Discrimination Convention, 1958 (No. 111)
Convention No. 111 addresses effects on equal opportunity and treatment across training, occupational access and employment conditions, beyond openly exclusionary hiring language.
- Legal Equality
- Workplace Equality
- Gender Discrimination
The Women’s Charter (1954)
The Federation of South African Women connects racial liberation, legal equality, wages, housing and care, while organizing a historically situated collective voice.
- African Feminism
- Antiracist Politics
- Labor Rights
Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100)
Convention No. 100 addresses equal pay for work of equal value, including additional benefits and the valuation of differently gendered occupations.
- Equal Pay
- Legal Equality
- Workplace Equality
All About Eve
Behind Broadway's glittering stage, a legendary actress and an ambitious young woman engage in a complex battle over age, power, and women's survival space. This classic black-and-white film explores workplace gender dynamics and generational conflict in patriarchal society through sharp dialogue and profound character development.
- Workplace Equality
- Glass Ceiling
- Cultural Critique
An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!
Jones examines domestic work and racism within progressive organizations, demanding recognition of Black women’s organizing experience and leadership.
- Black Feminism
- Race and Class
- Domestic Labor
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren's 1943 experimental short film explores female subconscious, identity, and gender power relations through dreamlike visual language, serving as an important pioneering work of American avant-garde and feminist cinema.
- Psychoanalysis
- Identity and Selfhood
- Dream and Reality
Thoughts on March 8
Ding Ling connects marriage gossip, childcare and judgments of women’s progress in Yan’an, asking who bears responsibility when demands for self-reliance meet exhaustion.
- Socialist Feminism
- Domestic Labor
- Reproductive Rights
His Girl Friday
Released in 1940, this Howard Hawks rom-com still resonates with progressive themes today. It stars Rosalind Russell as Hildy, a star journalist who has her own ideas about what she wants for her life (traditional and non-) and isn't going to let her boss-slash-husband, played by Cary Grant, get in the way.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- First Wave Feminism
The Passion of Joan of Arc
La Passion de Jeanne d'ArcCarl Dreyer's silent French film is as much an example of female strength today as it was 90 years ago. Based on the actual record of the trial of Joan of Arc, it explores the martyr as a Christlike figure whose strength, will, and determination endures even as she's led to a stake to be burned alive.
- Feminist Theology
- Historical Context
- Spiritual Feminism
Miss Sophia's Diary
莎菲女士的日记Ding Ling gives Sophia the gaze and the diary: her attraction to a man, her self-reproach and her wish to be understood make agency more complicated than sexual confidence.
- Women's Literature
- Body Politics
- Feminist Theory
Widowism
Lu Xun challenges schools’ surveillance of young women while pathologizing unmarried women himself; the essay requires criticism of both discipline and its explanation.
- Education
- Sexual Politics
- Gender Roles
What Happens after Nora Leaves?
Lu Xun asks how income, household property and social power sustain women’s choices, while questioning the public consumption of individual sacrifice.
- Economic Empowerment
- Patriarchy Critique
- Historical Context
Make Way for Winged Eros
Kollontai opposes possession in love while making intimacy answer to collective duty. Who defines love’s obligations after the old morality loses authority?
- Socialist Feminism
- Sexual Politics
- Sexual Liberation
Communism and the Family
Kollontai connects freedom in intimate life to kitchens, laundries and childcare, asking who does domestic work and what collective provision must change.
- Socialist Feminism
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
The Damnation of Women
Du Bois examines Black women’s work, desire and motherhood. His tribute also asks us whether dignity should depend on usefulness, endurance or purity.
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Domestic Labor
Women's Liberation and Social Reconstruction
Xiang Jingyu connects marriage choice, education finance and collective childcare, asking what institutions make women's self-determination possible.
- Chinese Feminist Movement
- Historical Feminism
- Domestic Labor
Reply to Hiratsuka, Yamakawa and Yamada
Yosano Akiko’s 1918 intervention rejects motherhood as women’s defining role; its defense of economic independence also reveals the limits of self-reliance.
- Motherhood
- Care Economy
- Labor Rights
My Views on Chastity
Lu Xun examines how honors for women’s chastity shift responsibility for violence and poverty, replacing praise for sacrifice with demands to end its production.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Sexual Politics
- Bodily Autonomy