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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought this might be a fun list to generate...those movies over the years that really set the tone and moved the dialogue forward on feminist ideals.  This is my starter list, which I realize is really incomplete and way too white, but it's what I came up with in three minutes of thought.

His Girl Friday
Maybe Adam's Rib (been a while since I've seen that one)
Norma Rae
Silkwood
9 to 5
maybe Broadcast News (again, I'd like to rewatch this one)
Joy Luck Club
Aliens

What am I missing?! It also occurs to me, looking at this list, that it's all about women in the workplace with the exception of Joy Luck Club.  I think for inclusion they also should be affirmatively GOOD movies, and hopefully avoid the easy "girl power!" flicks (like the Pitch Perfect movies, which are really fun, but not really what I'm thinking of....).

[/quote]Was just coming here to list Aliens.  Also was surprised when I finally saw Poltergeist that it was really about the mom coming to the rescue - which at the time in the early 80s was quite remarkable.  But I don't know if it is technically that important.  Oh and I loved Broadcast News - which to me was about being a workaholic and the destruction it wreaks on a person's life. That was an issue central to my life at the time! But I don't know that I wold call it an iconic feminist movie.[/quote]

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