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A Woman's Life
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The Golden Notebook
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and memory.
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A Room of One's Own
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Woman in Black
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and memory.
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A Woman Is a Woman
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and South Asia.
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Transparent
2010s
Transparent is an American comedy-drama television series created by Joey Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6, 2014. The story revolves around a Los Angeles family, the Pfeffermans, and their lives after learning that their parent is a trans woman now going by the name Maura. Transparent's first se...
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The Handmaid's Tale
1980s
A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.
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The Woman in Black
2010s
The Woman in Black is a 2012 film from Canada, United Kingdom, and Sweden, associated with James Watkins. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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A Room of One's Own
1920s
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. Feminism's foundational essay.
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The Golden Notebook
The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as a landmark by the Women's Movement.
Film 1960s
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman is a 1961 film from France and Italy, associated with Jean-Luc Godard. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1940s
The Second Sex
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.
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Books 1930s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Black woman's journey to self-discovery in the rural South. Love, language, and the horizon.
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Film 2000s
Howl's Moving Castle
A young woman cursed with old age finds refuge in a wizard's castle. War, love, and transformation.
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Books 1960s
The Bell Jar
A young woman's descent into depression in 1950s America. Plath's only novel.