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Film

Promising Young Woman

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Book

The Will to Change; Bell Hooks

Everyone needs to love and be loved. But to know love, men must be able to face how patriarchal culture keeps them from loving.

Film

Bombshell

Based on the true story of three female Fox News employees who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes’ chronic sexual harassment by suing him personally. 

Book

Women, Race and Class; Angela Davis

Women, Race and Class is a collection of 13 essays about the American women's liberation movement and also about slavery in the United States.

Book

Sister Outsider; Audre Lorde

Essays and Speeches is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist.

Poems

Audre Lorde Poems

Short collection of poems by Audrey Lorde. Audre Lorde was an American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist.

Film

A League of Their Own

During World War II when all the men are fighting the war, most of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled in by women. The owners of the baseball teams, not wanting baseball to be dormant indefinitely, decide to form teams with women, so scouts are sent all over the country to find female players. 

Film

Seeing Allred

Gloria Allred isn’t quite a household name, but those that do know her probably have a misguided view of the lawyer, activist, and feminist icon.  

Gloria is most famous for defending women that have been assaulted or harassed by famous celebrities. (The women filing suits against Bill Cosby and Donald Trump were defended by Gloria). 

Film

Miss Representation

The focus of the documentary is on the media’s portrayal of women. And more specifically, how that impacts the way they are treated in society.  

So much of what we see is subtle. Yet it has a huge impact on the way we think about and treat women.

Book

Think Like a Feminist: The Philosphy Behind the Revolution 

An irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides this balanced, clarifying, and inspiring examination of what it truly means to be a feminist today.

TV Series

Maid 

Across the 10 roughly hourlong episodes of “Maid,” Alex and Maddy undertake a bitter, circular, hugely frustrating journey through the precincts of poverty. They move in and out of domestic violence shelters, halfway houses, friends’ and relatives’ homes and, for a particularly dismal spell, back into the trailer.

Film

Greta Gerwig's Little Women

Is it any surprise that Gerwig’s “Little Women,” at the end of a decade in which we confronted female power in a whole new way, feels positively radical?

Film

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the story of Black women who work at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, starting in the early 1940s. These women play an integral role in the development of American aviation and space technology. They persevere in the face of discrimination against both their race and their gender.

Film

On the Basis of Sex

Docudrama focusing on two periods of the young adult life of future US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.