Drawing on a wide range of films, María Pía Lara dissects cinematic images of women's struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation.
This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women' s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary.
