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'Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity' explores the lives and theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Stal, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir in light of and alongside contemporary feminist work, to examine the significance that being a woman and the material conditions of femininity thrust upon one based on the times in which one lives had on their lives and work. These historical women are often valorized as thinkers and intellectuals, whose private lives are deemed irrelevant at best, and degrading as worst, or are the subjects of biographies that ignore their political contributions. Marso argues that the theories of these feminists should not be divorced from the struggles and contradiction of their actual lives. She uses the memoirs left by these women to explore how they criticized the constraints of femininity while simultaneously living within them. Finally, Marso explores a few memoirs of contemporary feminist thinkers to show that contemporary feminists struggle withthe same difficulties encountered by the women who came before.

Femininity. --- Feminism. --- Feminists --- Women's studies --- Social conditions. --- Biographical methods. --- Developmental psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Beauvoir, de, Simone --- Goldman, Emma --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Staël, de, Germaine --- Feminism --- Theory --- Féminité --- Book --- Personal documents

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Women in literature --- Citizenship in literature --- Feminism and literature

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"Feminism and the Cinema of Experience takes up the feelings of ambivalence, cringe, or discomfort that girls and women experience while viewing film and television as sites of important feminist political work. Lori Jo Marso contends that explicitly feminist aesthetic forms can incite us to "feel like feminists," with all the messy and contradictory embodied affects that this entails. Using Chantal Akerman's cinematic innovations and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, Marso coins the term "camerawork motherwork" to describe the ways that cinema stirs difficult feelings while creating a bounded container in which to hold these feelings within the space and time of a film. Across the book's chapters, Marso thinks through a capacious body of historical and contemporary feminist film and television including Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You, Emerald Fennel's A Promising Young Woman, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, Greta Gerwig's Barbie, and Catherine Breillat's Romance"--

Feminism and motion pictures. --- Feminism on television. --- Politics in motion pictures. --- Politics on television. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

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