Identity and Selfhood

Amina Mama traces how psychology helped construct the racialised ‘Other’, then develops a Black feminist account of subjectivity through the histories, conversations and relationships of Black women in Britain.

Gloria Steinem links self-esteem to self-authority and public power, moving through childhood, bodies, and love to ask how people regain room to act within unequal relations.

Marilyn French's bestselling 1977 novel follows Mira Ward from postwar marriage and unpaid domestic work back to Harvard, asking how economic dependence, women's solidarity, sexual violence, and race shape feminist freedom.

A manga artist with cerebral palsy seeks authorship, sexual experience, and independent life. HIKARI makes a disabled woman not an object of care but a subject with desire, contradiction, and agency.

Over five hours and seventeen minutes, Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows four women approaching forty in Kobe as friendship, marriage, work and departure test what it takes to speak honestly and truly hear one another.

Agnès Varda's 1962 masterpiece uses real-time filming to depict the psychological journey of a young singer awaiting cancer diagnosis results over two hours, standing as a landmark of both French New Wave and feminist cinema.

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.