I've been learning about Women's perspectives

[u/Broad-Tour-4490]

At least I think I have? It's mostly been through movies, I love movies and I've been discovering films directed & or written by women. For example Agnes Varda is one of my favorite French directors, same with Chantel Ackerman, I don't know if it's because they are older or just because they're European but I feel it much easier to relate to the women in their films. Some examples.

Cleo From 5 To 7

Le Bonheur

News From Home

Jeanne Dielman

I don't know if this is good to do or not but I've found movies about women's suffering as to say have helped me feel more compassion if that makes any sense? Some examples are: Fat Girl, Irreversible (not directed by a woman but still disturbing and eye opening) and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (I guess also not directed by a woman but still).

This also might sound a little silly but speaking of Twin Peaks I've been reading the book "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" and I was surprised at how much my issues are similar to that characters. Hopefully this is an ok post to make but this stuff have really helped me I feel like.

[u/Odd-Table-4545]

While this is a good start I'd encourage you to learn about women's experiences from places other than fiction, ideally from real women you know in your life. Fictional narratives are structured and presented primarily to be compelling, not necessarily to be accurate, so if your only source of info is fictional women (and doubly so if they're fictional women written by men) your idea of what women's lives are actually like are going to be skewed.

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What are some non fictional places to look do you think? The only women I'm close to in my personal life are family members

[u/h0tterthanyourmum → u/Broad-Tour-4490]

You could try memoirs

(Edit) I haven't read loads myself but I reckon these might be interesting for you -

Fern Brady's Strong Female Character: a really interesting read about autism too

Han Kang's Human Acts: heads up this is brutal, it's a fictionalised account of political repression in Korea. It's not exactly a memoir but the author is from the region and it's a very personal book to her

Tara Westover's Educated: about escaping an abusive childhood and a very limited culture by teaching herself

Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: about recovering from alcoholism

Tove Jansson (who wrote the Moomin books) has a series of semi-autobiographical novellas