FemRes
🔄

Identity Formation

10 items

🎬 Films 9

View All →
Booksmart

Booksmart

Olivia Wilde's directorial debut revolutionizes the high school comedy genre, following two academic overachievers who decide to cram four years of fun into one wild night before graduation. This self-aware coming-of-age comedy explores female friendship, academic pressure, sexual identity, and teenage identity formation through an inclusive lens.

查看详情 102 minutes
2019
USA

Booksmart

Olivia Wilde

Comedy Coming-of-Age Drama
Female Friendship Education Equality +4
Circumstance

Circumstance

Director Maryam Keshavarz's coming-of-age drama focuses on a wealthy Iranian family, particularly headstrong teenager Atafeh whose relationship with her friend Shireen evolves from friendship into romance and even eroticism, alongside her brother's journey from recovering drug addict to religious extremist. This vibrant exploration of sexual rebellion showcases high school protagonists confronting patriarchal oppression, culminating in a penetrating examination of women's treatment under Iranian theocracy.

查看详情 106 minutes
2011
USA

Circumstance

Maryam Keshavarz

Drama Coming-of-Age Romance
Queer Theory Anti-Feminism Studies +4

🎥 Videos 1

This isn't her mother's feminism
11:09
💡 TED

This isn't her mother's feminism

C
Courtney E. Martin
• 15 years ago

In this TEDWomen talk, Courtney E. Martin reflects on the evolving meaning of feminism across generations. Through personal narrative and cultural critique, she explores three paradoxes that define her generation’s feminist identity, emphasizing the tension between tradition and innovation, idealism and pragmatism.

Fourth Wave Feminism Cultural Critique Identity Formation Women's Writing Feminism
Watch Video

Related Topics

👭 Female Friendship 7 3️⃣ Third Wave Feminism 3 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory 3 🎬 Pop Culture Feminism 3 📈 Economic Empowerment 3 🎨 Feminist Art 3

Discover More

Explore more feminist topics and resources

Search View all topics