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Now showing — Gender · 5 works

  • 20 Fingers Film · 2000s

    Seven vignettes of Iranian couples arguing about gender, power, and freedom — shot inside a car. Akbari's confrontational companion to Kiarostami's Ten.

    After-hoursPowerLonging
  • Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 Books · 2010s

    An everywoman biography of structural sexism in South Korea. Quiet accumulation of indignity as a form of horror.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Nervous Conditions Books · 1980s

    A girl's education in colonial Rhodesia. Gender, race, and the double bind of aspiration.

    IdentityMemoryMigration
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena Anime · 1990s

    A girl who wants to be a prince fights duels in a surreal academy. Gender, fairy tales, and revolution.

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The Left Hand of Darkness Books · 1960s

    An envoy visits a planet of androgynous beings. Gender, politics, and ice.

    PowerMemoryMigration
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  • Gender Music
  • Gender Music
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  • The Second Sex Essays
  • Gender Trouble Essays
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  • 20 Fingers Film
  • Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 Books

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