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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
Workplace Equality Economic Empowerment Global Feminism +4

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Leslie T. Chang (2024)

From the author of Factory Girls, a two-year investigative report revealing how globalization's promise of liberation paved the way for oppression. Follow three Egyptian women navigating between traditional culture and modernization demands.

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🎬Films1

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

There's no rioting, protesting, or marching for civil rights here. Jeanne Dielman, single mother and sometime sex worker, has a simple life: laundry, dinner, the occasional john. The mundanity of being a housewife is on achingly tedious display for three-plus hours in Chantal Akerman's experimental film. And that's why it's brilliant.

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1975
Belgium / France

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman

Drama Avant-garde
Avant-garde Cinema Domestic Labor +4

🎥Videos1

stop denying women their autonomy
26:37
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stop denying women their autonomy

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oliSUNvia
• 2 years ago

In this video essay, oliSUNvia critiques the cultural backlash against 'choice feminism' and the rise of stay-at-home girlfriend discourse. She argues that autonomy must include the right to make non-normative or traditionally feminine choices without being dismissed as brainwashed or anti-feminist. Through nuanced commentary and community responses, the video explores the tension between agency, internalized norms, and feminist respect for individual paths.

Gender Equality Bodily Autonomy Domestic Labor Patriarchy Critique Feminist Theory Liberal Feminism
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📄 Papers

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

Nancy C. M. Hartsock •

This foundational chapter develops the concept of the feminist standpoint by integrating Marxist theory with feminist epistemology. Hartsock argues that women's experiences—particularly in domestic labor and social reproduction—offer a privileged epistemic position from which to critique dominant knowledge systems and capitalist structures.

Marxist Feminism Epistemic Colonialism Critique Domestic Labor +2
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