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Books

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

  • Short novel following a group of 40 women who have been locked in an underground cage for as long as they can remember, searching for meaning and connection in dire circumstances as they navigate their small world. Read my review here.​​

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• Kapitalisme is Seksisme by Doortje Smithuijsen

  • ('Capitalism is Sexism') A pamflet on the subliminal (and also less subtle) sexist messages that women in their late 20s-early 30s are surrounded by in Dutch capitalist society.​​

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• Rage Becomes Her: The power of women's anger by Soraya Chemaly

  • Sociological and psychological exploration of women's anger, focussing on different compartments of society such as public life, domestic life, and political life. Also summed up in Chemaly's TedTalk.

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• ​ A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt

  • Collection of essays on the intersection between art, gender, and neuroscience, including neuropsychological insights on hysteria.​

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• Mow Your Plows over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

  • Gothic murder mystery novel. A person is found dead in a small Polish village, and our narrator believes it to be at the hands of the animals in the forest, seeking revenge on the humans that hunt them. She becomes an advocate for the animals as she slowly unravels what's actually happening in her town.

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• Boos Meisje: Over vrouwen en frictie by Marja Pruis​​

  • ('Angry Girl: On women and friction') Collection of essays and personal reflections on various topics, such as women in politics, objectification of female beauty, misogyny, imposter syndrome, and much more.

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Shows

• Fleabag​

  • ​Created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge​, Fleabag follows a 30-something woman in London as she navigates the recent loss of her best friend and strenuous romantic and familial relationships.

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• Dead to me

  • ​​A woman grieving the recent and sudden passing of her husband meets a woman in a grief counseling group and sparks up a friendship. Together, they obsessively search for the person who killed her husband while discovering the not so savory past of him and others around him.​

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• The Handmaid's Tale

  • ​Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale​ is set in a dystopian society where Biblical law applies after infertility rates in women skyrocket. Only a few women are able to bare children. They serve as "handmaids", essentially breeding stock, for the wealthy couples of this society. Gruesome and chilling but also immensely powerful.​​​​​​

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Films

• Promising Young Woman

  • A former med student is on a quest to punish the men who played a part in the assault her best friend suffered, and to teach other men a lesson on consent. Her methods are, one could say, extreme. Read my review here.​

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• Gone Girl

  • In what seems like a picture-perfect marriage, a wife goes missing on her wedding anniversary. Her husband is suspect number one; all clues lead to him. But things aren't always what they seem.​​

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• Women Talking

  • ​A group of women in a Mennonite community have to make a life-altering decision: whether to leave or forgive the men in their surroundings after having suffered countless assaults at their hands. Read my review here.​​

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• Thelma & Louise

  • Two friends spiral down a path of crime on their weekend getaway to a lake cabin, discovering more about themselves and their friendship along the way. Read my review here.​​

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• ​The Royal Hotel

  • American backpackers find themselves out of money in Australia and take the only job available: bartending in the middle of nowhere in the Outback, where they are faced with male customers who continuously test their boundaries, as danger looms around the corner.​​

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• Wicked Little Letters

  • A small English town in the 1920s is plagued by an anonymous person sending vulgar and offensive letters to one of its residents. An Irish woman not shy from filthy talk is accused and has to defend herself.​