Motherhood

Inspired by a true story, this Goncourt Prize-winning novel tells a chilling tale about the relationship between a 'perfect nanny' and her employer family. Slimani explores boundaries of class, race, and motherhood with sharp, cold prose, revealing deep societal rifts hidden beneath urban life's calm surface.

Nancy Chodorow's 1978 classic feminist work uses psychoanalytic and sociological theory to explain why women become mothers and how this gender division is psychologically reproduced.

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.

Zarrar Kahn uses supernatural horror to follow a Karachi mother and daughter after the death of their family patriarch, exposing how grief, property insecurity, and male surveillance make ordinary movement dangerous.

A medical professor’s pursuit of accountability after suspected sexual abuse becomes an abrasive study of institutional denial, maternal pressure, and the costs of being believed only when one performs the perfect victim.

Set amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.

Mai Masri’s prison drama follows a Palestinian teacher who gives birth in Israeli custody, locating motherhood, collective resistance, and political imprisonment within the same carceral space.

This Brazilian drama uses the conflict between a live-in housekeeper, her daughter, and an employer's family to expose domestic labor, separated motherhood, class boundaries, and women's dignity.

Ali Wong returns to Netflix in Don Wong with a more confident and mature perspective on marriage, motherhood, and female desire, challenging societal expectations of women's roles with her signature sharp humor

Ali Wong's second Netflix special Hard Knock Wife, released after she became a mother of two, continues to explore the realities of motherhood, the struggles of working mothers, and how women balance family and career with fearless humor.

Ali Wong's groundbreaking comedy special Baby Cobra features her performing at seven months pregnant, using sharp humor to challenge Asian American female stereotypes and explore gender discrimination, motherhood penalty, and workplace inequality.