Mother-Daughter Relationships

Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel turns a mother - daughter care conflict into a study of memory, maternal ambivalence, and the limits of reconciliation.

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir asks how a daughter can narrate a living mother without mistaking memory for shared truth, using comics form and psychoanalysis to examine intimacy, art, and self-making.

In this seminal feminist work, Adrienne Rich explores the complex and often fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, distinguishing between motherhood as a personal experience and as a political institution forced upon women.

At a strict Himalayan boarding school, a teenager’s sexual awakening collides with institutional discipline and her mother’s interrupted youth, making desire an intergenerational feminist question.

Adapted from Judy Blume's groundbreaking 1970 novel, follows 11-year-old Margaret Simon as she navigates puberty's physical changes, religious exploration, and identity formation. This warm and honest coming-of-age film explores female adolescent experiences, mother-daughter relationships, religious freedom, and the universality of women's intergenerational experiences through a delicate perspective.

A poignant Taiwanese drama exploring family secrets, grief, and the complex bonds between women across three generations as they organize a funeral for an estranged father.

Lulu Wang's semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Chinese-American writer Billi returning to China to say goodbye to her cancer-stricken grandmother. This warm and profound family drama explores death, family, cultural identity, and the complex roles of women in families through a cross-cultural perspective, showcasing deep emotional bonds between women across generations.