Indhold: Introduction: on women's films: moving thought across worlds and generations / Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski ; Phrasing (in)significance ("Wanda's" slowness: enduring insigificance / Elena Gorfinkel ; "And it's so tiring": Chantal Akerman's ruminative economy / Ivone Margulies ; When to speak and when to be quiet: the act of waiting and the loneliness of bodies in Maria Ramos's films / Andréa França ; Social realism, melodrama, and the mute text: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's "The May lady" and "Under the skin of the city" / Laura Mulvey) ; Collective voice and documentary poetics (Documentary poetics as a field of action: Cecilia Mangini's "Essere donne" / Noa Steimatsky ; On talking heads and "Las muertes chiquitas / Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky ; Agnès Varda and "Ydessa": engaging personal and cultural histories / Rebecca J. DeRoo ; Peace and love, true false: Agnès Varda in Los Angeles / Jean Ma) ; Embodied configurations: material and self-inscription (She carries the film on her naked body: environmental and embodied debt in Claire Denis's "Bastards" / Katrin Pesch ; Ornaments and sites of self-suspension: Hito Steyerl's multimedial essayism / Nora Gortcheva ; Female material: "Invisible adversaries" and the intermedial / Jennifer Stob ; "Dedicated to the one I love": authorship and adaptation in Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" / Michael Cramer) ; Subjectivities across local, national, and neoliberal logics (She, a Chinese director? Xiaolu Guo and transnational feminist authorship / Patricia White ; Floating light and shadows: Huang Yu-shan's chronicles of modern Taiwan / Zhen Zhang ; On death and dying: Małgorzata Szumowska between Poland and self / Izabela Kalinowska) ; Women's imaginaries, same-sex worlds (Soft fictions / Rebekah Rutkoff ; Perverse angle: feminist film, queer film, shame / Liza Johnson ; Thinking like a holy girl: a philosophy of Grandma's bedroom / Karen Redrobe ; "Once upon her time?": the cinema of Valérie Massadian, or, living and creating at the periphery of patriarchy / Jeremi Szaniawski)