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🎬 Films 4

Skater Girl

Skater Girl

The coming-of-age story of Prerna, a teenage girl from a remote village in Rajasthan who discovers skateboarding and challenges traditional gender expectations and social norms. This family-friendly inspirational film explores Indian rural women's educational rights, gender equality, caste system, and the transformative role of sports in women's empowerment through skateboarding.

查看详情 109 min
2021
India

Skater Girl

Manjari Makijany

Drama Family Sports
Gender Norms Education Equality +4
Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes

A biographical sports drama centered on the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Emma Stone portrays tennis legend Billie Jean King, while Steve Carell plays former tennis champion Bobby Riggs. The film deeply explores crucial issues including sports equality, equal pay, women's rights, and LGBTQ+ identity, showcasing a historic showdown that changed both sports history and the trajectory of the women's rights movement.

查看详情 121 min
2017
USA

Battle of the Sexes

Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton

Biography Drama Sport
Sports Equality Equal Pay +4
A League of Their Own

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.

查看详情 128 minutes
1992
USA

A League of Their Own

Penny Marshall

Comedy Drama Sport
Sports Equality Historical Context +3

🎧 Podcasts 1

Burn It All Down

Burn It All Down

🎵 Spotify
Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis, Jessica Luther
• last year

Burn It All Down is a podcast co-hosted by five feminist sports commentators, dedicated to analyzing sports and cultural issues from a feminist perspective. The hosts include Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs, Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis, and Jessica Luther, who explore athlete activism, gender and race intersectional issues, injustices in the sports industry, and how sports intervene in contemporary culture wars. With a sharp, critical style, the show is popular among feminists and sports researchers, with a high Spotify rating of 4.9 (73 reviews).

#Sports Equality #Intersectional Feminism #Race and Gender
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📄 Papers 1

📄 Papers

Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality

Iris Marion Young •

This groundbreaking 1980 essay analyzes the particularity of feminine bodily experience through a phenomenological lens. Young combines Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body with de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism to explore how patriarchal society shapes women's bodily comportment, movement patterns, and spatial perception, revealing how gendered bodily experience limits women's agency and self-realization.

Phenomenological Feminism Body Politics Gender Socialization +3
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