Marriage Critique

Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.

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.

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.