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 1977 feminist fiction classic follows protagonist Mira's transformation from a submissive 1950s housewife to a 1960s feminist awakening, revealing patriarchal marriage's oppression of women and the possibility of women's liberation.

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.