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Medea
ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides
Bechdel test
test if a fictional work features at least two women who discuss something other than a man
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
male gaze
depiction of girls and women as sexual objects for the pleasure of a male, heterosexual viewer
cyberfeminism
Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, art practices, methodologies or community. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-making the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general.
feminist literary criticism
literary criticism informed by feminist theory
protofeminism
Protofeminism is a concept that anticipates modern feminism in eras when the feminist concept as such was still unknown. This refers particularly to times before the 20th century, although the precise usage is disputed, as 18th-century feminism and 19th-century feminism are often subsumed into "feminism". The usefulness of the term protofeminist has been questioned by some modern scholars, as has the term postfeminist.
feminist film theory
theoretical film criticism derived from feminist theory and politics
final girl
stock character; "last girl standing" in a horror film
écriture féminine
literary genre, deviating from traditional masculine styles, that examines the relationship between the cultural/psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text
women in architecture
professional women
Chicks on Speed
German music and fine art ensemble
Hunger Strike Medal
Medal for suffragette prisoners who had gone on hunger strike
women in film
women involved in the film industry
list of women in the Heritage Floor
Wikimedia list article
Grendel's mother
mother of the monster Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf
woman photographer
woman working as photographer
female gaze
feminist film theoretical term
feminist aesthetics
perspectives that question assumptions in art and aesthetics concerning gender-role stereotypes
wrap dress
dress with a front closure formed by wrapping one side across the other
The Suffragette Handkerchief
handkerchief embroidered with the names of women imprisoned in HMP Holloway for their part in the Women's Social and Political Union Suffragette window smashing demonstrations of March 1912
jouissance
'''''' () is a French language term implying "enjoyment"; the term jouissance connotes 'to come' as in sexual parlance and has the meaning 'orgasm' in French.
!Women Art Revolution
2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
exploitation of women in mass media
objections to media portrayal of women
Holloway brooch
Suffrage jewellery, Women's Social and Political Union
Radical cheerleading
performative style of political activism, derived from mainstream cheerleading