INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS DAY MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS
for international women's rights day, I'm also sharing different pieces of media I love which delineate women’s experiences in a deeply-ingrained and oppressive patriarchal system. please watch in your own discretion, as most of these feature SA and violence in women
Starting from the top left:
Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 (2019) - a film about what it means to be a daughter, a wife, a mother, a woman in a patriarchal society. antiquated expectations, societal constraints that women are being constantly put through where misogyny, sexism, male chauvinism are still so extremely normalised and unaddressed
Anne with an E (2017) - AOGG tv adaptation with a more progressive and even better nuances as well as straightforward feminist themes, resisting traditional gender roles, perpetuation of the same patriarchal beliefs due to internalisation of social norms
Requiem (2021) - it’s a film short available on youtube about lesbians during the witch trials where most victims were women labeled as witches. misogyny and patriarchy in religious institutions
Moral (1982) - timeless feminist Filipino film about heteronormative and patriarchal gendered roles and traditional social dichotomy that the Philippines was/still being circumscribed by during the Marcos regime
Brutal (1980) - Filipina women with intersectional experiences of misogyny, male chauvinism, and patriarchy. women's internalised misogyny due to the social norms, but still having to challenge and resist it rather than being complicit, hypersexuality due to SA in women, misogyny and oppression in religion and nuclear family
The Day I Became a Woman (2000) - a wonderful and timeless chronicles of different generations of Iranian women experiencing misogyny in religion and being under an oppressive patriarchal regime, liberation that women in Iran still actively fight for
Yume no Hashibashi (2018) - a yuri manga about lesbians being oppressed in patriarchy and being forced in compulsory heterosexuality
Moonlight Flowers (1989) - another yuri manga about compulsory heterosexuality, marital r*pe, anti-patriarchal themes
Joyland (2022) - a film about patriarchal family structures and traditional gender roles, misogyny in the nuclear family, transmisogyny
She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat (2021) - fluffy yuri manga that also addresses misogyny, traditional expectations in a patriarchal society, accepting one’s sexuality without having to conform to gender norms. this manga also realistically portrays how heteronormativity affects queer people. it has lots of representations which I really love
Onna no Ko ga Iru Basho wa (2021) - an anthology that features patriarchal indoctrination and misogyny in religion seen in different cultures
Saiunkoku Monogatari (2006) - women in leadership positions, challenging misogyny patriarchy
