Feminism and the women's movement...

Here are some more websites to use for background and history of female cinema:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/History/Sixties/Feminism/film.htm

http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/anneke/filmtheory.html

http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publications/film/feminist_auteurs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_film_theory