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Videos, Films, and Slideshows about Women and Gender Issues Available at Instructional Media Services, Second Floor, Alden Library.
This list is compiled by the Ohio University Women's Studies Program with invaluable help from Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMTS) at Alden Library. Quarterly we update this guide with the new videos and films that are added by IMTS. We have not listed the classic "women's films," such as Anna Karenina, but they too, are available. Check under "Women's Studies" subject heading in the IMTS Video Catalog. In addition, by using ALICE, you can search for additional videos (some not listed at IMTS) by calling up "Women" and "Video*" (use the asterisk) and other keywords. Unless otherwise noted, all videos/films are in color.
Also see the Videos Relating to Queer Issues page.
Updated Winter Quarter 1998.
Abortion Denied: Shattering Young Women's Lives (28 min., 1990). This video focuses on the devastating and sometimes lethal effects that parental consent and notification laws have on young women.
Abortion: For Survival (30 min., 1989). Top medical and population experts present compelling evidence on how legal abortion improves public health and is essential for the well-being of millions of women.
Abortion: Stories from North and South (55 min., 1984). This award-winning documentary attempts to go beyond the emotionalism of the national debate on this issue. A cross-cultural survey filmed in countries throughout the world, it shows how abortion transcends race, religion, and social class and how differences in the practice and perception of abortion lie in the degree of secrecy and danger accompanying it. It is globally and historically evident that when faced with an unwanted pregnancy, women will resort to abortion despite legal, religious, and financial sanctions. Interviews are filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada.
Abusive Parents (Film 30 min., 1977). This sixteen-millimeter film presents a panel of women, incarcerated for child abuse, who belong to a prison chapter of Parents Anonymous. The commentary covers the social context and the personal and family dynamics of child abuse.
Achieving Diversity: The Myths (34 min., 1990). This video introduces the twelve most common myths and misconceptions about cultural diversity on campus. Each vignette takes you inside campus life from the president's suite, to the maintenance office--in order to expose, examine, and explode the myths that stand in the way of academic diversity.
Adoption (89 min., 1975). A warm and intimate drama about love and friendship between two women, this video is a haunting, gripping vision of people struggling for love and contact in a dispassionate world. Katie wants a child, but her married lover won't oblige, so it falls to Anna, her newfound friend, to help her have a child and, learn how to love and survive.
Against Her Will (46 min., 1989). Hosted by Kelly McGillis, this candid documentary explores the "whys" of rape and examines what parents can do to better prepare their children for contemporary campus life. Interviews with female rape victims, young male students, security personnel, and counselors help underscore the problem of rape on college campuses. Alice Paul: We Were Arrested of Course (28 min., 1995). This video contains reenactment, film footage, and photographs of Alice Paul, the suffragist leader and founder of the National Woman's Party. It re-creates the ordeals and activities of Paul and other members of the NWP, including their imprisonment, hunger strikes, and force feeding. The NWP, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was the radical arm of the nineteenth-and twentieth-century movement to gain votes for women. It's activities helped force the president and Congress to confront the issue of suffrage.
All God's Children (28 min., 1996). This video features a mostly black choir, with predominately gay and lesbian members, singing gospel music. It also contains interviews with African American leaders, such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and U.S. Senator Carol Mosely-Braun, who support gay and lesbian rights. This video discusses how to work against homophobia in the African American community, particularly in/through the church. This video is available from United Campus Ministry (593-7301).
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (Film, 57 min., 1976). This sixteen-millimeter film focuses on the careers of ten American women who fought to establish, preserve, and expand the rights and liberties of all people. From their heroism in the Revolutionary War, through the battle against slavery, racism, sexism, Victorian prudery, and even the exploitation of labor, this film offers a tribute to women who have helped shape American destiny: Sybil Ludington, Deborah Sampson, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Belva Lockwood, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones, and Rosa Parks.
America's Victoria: Remembering Victoria Woodhull (82 min., 1995). This video on the controversial Victoria Woodhull features Kate Capshaw as the voice of Woodhull, who, in 1872, under the banner of the National Equal Rights Party, was the first woman to run for president of the United States.
Anchoress (108 min., 1992). In fourteenth-century Britain, Christianity formed a very thin veneer over the older earth religions, and the Virgin Mary was often a thinly disguised stand-in for the Mother Goddess. This beautiful first feature is a powerful evocation of medieval rural England where the conflict between a fiercely hierarchical Christianity and ancient "Pagan" beliefs are embodied in a passionate young girl who agrees to be an anchoress (an acolyte of the Virgin Mary who agrees to live sealed behind a stone wall in a church). A conflict develops between the priest, who wants to control her vision, Christine herself, and her mother, who follows the old earth-based rituals. The movie is based on actual letters written by an anchoress in 1325.
Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas: The Untold Story (30 min., 1994). This video discusses women who were willing to testify against Judge Thomas at his confirmation hearings, but who were not called upon to do so. It includes interviews with them, Anita Hill, former members of the Senate judiciary committee, and authors of the book, Strange Justice.
Annapurna Mahila Mandal: An Experiment in Grassroots Development for Women (12 min., 1989). Produced and narrated by Indian journalist Sakuntia Narasimhan, this video shows a successful Bombay women's cooperative, working for the benefit of its members. Shown are examples of ways ordinary women can be empowered to improve their lives and the lives of their families.
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (58 min., 1974). This is a celebration of the determination and accomplishments of Antonia Brico, a musical pioneer who, despite adversity and gender-based prejudice, broadened the criteria for success as a woman and an artist in America. The film is a profile of Brico--dubbed by the U.S. and European press as the "girl genius"--and was codirected by singer Judy Collins, one of Brico's students.
Antonia's Line (102 min., 1995). By the Dutch film maker Marleen Gorris (The Question of Silence), this lovely subtitled film won the Academy Award for the best foreign film of 1995. It is a family chronicle, following the female line for a change. It has been compared with the Mexican Like Water for Chocolate, which is also told in flashback, and includes magical realism. The film tells the story of Antonia, with her teenage daughter, Danielle, who returns in the aftermath of World War II to the tiny Dutch farm village she had left twenty years earlier. After the death of Antonia's mother, the two women make a life farming the land they have inherited and deal with a widowed farmer who proposes to Antonia, a female schoolteacher with whom Danielle falls in love, and Danielle's precocious daughter, as the cycle of life continues.
The Artist Was a Woman (59 min., 1980). The traditional history of Western art has few examples of great women artists. This documentary uncovers the works of some gifted women, while exploring why their talent was overlooked. Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O'Keeffe bear witness to the fact that talent knows no gender. Jane Alexander narrates the letters and diaries that weave throughout the film. Germaine Greer also provides a wry social commentary.
As I Remember It: A Portrait of Dorothy West (56 min., 1991). From the perspective of her eighty-three years, the African American writer Dorothy West relates her memories of growing up black, privileged, and enthralled by literature.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (116 min., 1974). This is a heartwarming, heroic story of a brave, black Louisiana woman, from her childhood as a slave in the South to the birth of the civil rights movement.
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Babette's Feast (102 min., 1988). This is the film version of a story by Isak Dinesen. It tells the story of Babette, the superb French chef who, after winning 10,000 francs, decides to spend it all on a sumptuous meal for her employees, two elderly ascetic Danish women, and members of their community. In Danish and French with English subtitles.
The Babymakers (Film, 43 min., 1980). This film explores the many controversies, as well as the moral and ethical questions, surrounding artificial insemination, egg-embryo manipulations, and the use of surrogate mothers.
Band of Angels (128 min., 1957). After she learns she has African American blood in her, the penniless daughter of a once prosperous Kentucky family is sold as a slave to New Orleans millionaire Clark Gable and soon becomes his mistress. When the Civil War erupts, Gable is threatened by former slave Sidney Poitier, who happens to be her half-brother.
Bast Ya (Enough Already) (Slides, 25 min., 1979). These are slides that look into the economic and social conditions of women in Central America who are organizing and supporting guerrilla movements in an attempt to topple their militaristic governments. These women work for 75 percent of men's wages and come home to their second jobs as housekeepers.
Battered Wives (Film, 45 min., 1979). This film focuses on two situations of family violence. The first story is about the wife of an ambitious lawyer who is an easy target for her husband. In the second, a couple finds that alcohol has turned their happy marriage into an inferno.
Because This Is about Love (28 min., 1992). This is a touching profile of five lesbian and gay couples, from multicultural backgrounds, who have made a lifelong commitment to each other by going through a marriage ceremony. Without legal status or religious sanction, they are validating their commitment to one another. It is a commitment that lends joy and meaning to life, especially for a gay couple who are both infected with the AIDS virus. The video portrays, in warm, nonthreatening terms, a revolutionary act that questions the very foundations of family structure.
Bertha (30 min., 1974). This video raises questions about the rights of individuals who society has labeled "retarded" and specifically looks at whether compulsory birth control or sterilization is justified. It includes an interview with Bertha, a young ward of the state who, at the age of fifteen, was fitted with an intrauterine device, without her consent or that of her parents. It concludes with a panel discussion of issues raised in the interview.
Bessie Smith (15 min., 1988). Bessie Smith was born into the grinding poverty common to many blacks living in rural America at the turn of the century. Her rich and powerful contralto made her the Empress of Blues. Music critics agree that no jazz or blues singer possessed a greater talent or exerted a more profound influence on future generations of American musicians.
Betty Tells Her Story (20 min., b&w, 1972). Our culture's emphasis on female beauty underscores the poignant saga of Betty's search for the perfect dress--and why she never got to wear it. Betty tells her story twice--first in witty and delightful detail; then later, disclosing her underlying feelings of vulnerability, sadness, and pain. The contrast between the two stories is both haunting and revealing.
Beyond Beijing: The International Women's Movement (60 min., 1996). This independent documentary was produced by women about the largest meeting of women in world history, the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on Women held in September 1995 in Huaiiou, China. More than 30,000 activists convened to communicate, collaborate, celebrate, and influence the outcome of the parallel United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. In this video kaleidoscope constructed of Forum events, journalistic interviews, and intimate conversations, every speaker is a narrator, producing a text that is stylistically mixed, inclusive of multiple cultures and perspectives, and intentionally open-ended, thus challenging the viewer to participate in the spirit of Beijing.
Beyond Rangoon (100 min., 1995). Laura Bowman is a young American doctor traveling through Burma in an attempt to forget the pain of the recent murders of her husband and son. After witnessing a prodemocracy demonstration, she befriends an elderly former professor who promises to take her beyond the capital city of Rangoon, to see a true portrait of the people.
Birth Control: The Movie (17 min., 1986). Geared toward women, this video is designed to help women make the proper choice when choosing birth control. It explains the benefits and disadvantages of all types of birth control.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant) (124 min., 1972). This West German film follows a fashion designer who plays the dominant role in a sadomasochistic relationship with one of her employees until she meets someone who turns the tables on her. German with English subtitles.
Black Women Writers (28 min., 1989). Many black men in America say that they are getting a bum rap from a most unlikely source--black women writers. They accuse these writers of achieving success by focusing criticism on black males. In this Phil Donahue program, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Ntosake Shange, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou explain that the criticism heaped on them is a self-reflection of the problem of self-image that these men have.
Blind Justice: Women and the Law (30 min., 1987). This group of four animated segments traces the ways in which justice has been applied to women in Western society. One traces the origins of many basic concepts of Western law to ancient Greece and shows just how unequal women and men are under the law; the second segment shows the inherent bias of tribunals and courts. The third segment is based on an actual case where a villain gets away with murder, a murdered wife gets her own back, and a judge is forced to eat his words. The final segment is a documentary cartoon that shows the devastating effects of detention and imprisonment on young girls sent away "for their own protection."
Blue-Eyed (93 min., 1995). This video offers students and faculty their first chance to sit in on a full-length workshop with Jane Elliott, America's most celebrated and dynamic diversity trainer. Her "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise, initiated in 1968, was a groundbreaking experiment in antiracist training. It is especially relevant today, demonstrating irrefutably that even without juridical discrimination, hate speech, lowered expectations, and dismissive behavior can have devastating effects on minority achievement.
Body Beautiful (23 min., 1991). Stunning in its presentation and its message, this video focuses on a white woman who undergoes a radical mastectomy, her mixed-race daughter who embarks on a modeling career, and the profound effects of body image and the strain of sexual and racial identity on their relationships. At the heart of the film maker's excursion into her mother's scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy as the film plumbs the depth of the mother's strength and the daughter's devotion in an unforgettable tribute, which stars the film maker's real-life mother.
Body Trust: Undieting Your Way to Health and Happiness (60 min., 1993). Dayle Hayes, a registered dietician, uses her positive approach to eating to focus on eating healthy, enjoying physical exercise, and learning to love one's body--regardless of size or shape.
Brain Sex (50 min. each, 1992).
Breaking Silence: The Sisters of DeSales Heights (58 min., 1993). This compelling documentary reveals life behind the cloistered walls of a 150-year-old monastery as it follows twelve elderly nuns preparing to face the outside world for the first time in their adult lives. The documentary, filmed in Parkersburg, West Virginia, provides a touching portrait of a nontraditional society.
Brincando El Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994, USA) . "In Frances Negron-Muntaner's film Brincando El Charco, a young Latina artist serves seven years of exile in Philadelphia. When her father dies suddenly, Claudia copes with detachment. While she considers her obligation to a family who abandoned her because she is a lesbian, Claudia spends her days photographing and documenting other Latina/o gays. Her gay white publishing agent, however, discourages Claudia from pushing "the people-of-color issue" onto the rest of the community. Although she steers clear of becoming too involved in her lawyer girlfriend's political activism, Claudia copes inwardly with the effects of what has happened to her people politically since the colonialization of Puerto Rico. Race, language, birthplace, and economics surface as fractures in a culture as diverse as the world itself. As a light-skinned, island-born, mainland-living, bilingual lesbian Claudia struggles for a place on the spectrum." (popcornq)
Bulimia: High Price for Looking Good (28 min., 1985). This psychoeducational videotape on bulimia is designed especially for college students. Sensitively dealing with bulimic behavior, the pressures of college life, and "looking good," it draws the audience into the far-reaching effects of the binge-purge cycle without sensationalizing. Participants in the production are college students themselves; and Bulimic women and men, their friends and classmates all share their experiences.
The Burning Times (58 min., 1990). This video offers new insights into the legends and misconceptions that surround the word "witch." It provides ways for audiences to understand how the early church-and-state-sanctioned torture and killing of women during the witch-burning times set the stage for modern society's cultural acceptance of massive violence against women. But I Thought You Wanted To--Cultural Difference in Incidents of Rape and Sexual Harassment (25 min., 1991). This video was produced in response to a growing concern among international students, university staff, administrators, and others about cross-cultural issues that go unaddressed in peer relationships when dealing with incidents of rape and sexual harassment. This program is divided into four scenarios, each depicting an international woman in a different situation. The scenarios present the "worse case" ending first, followed by alternative endings with modeling behaviors that suggest ways in which the women can avoid the situation altogether or prevent it from escalating into something more dangerous.
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Casting the First Stone: Views from Both Sides of the Abortion War (58 min., 1991). Shot in and around the Women's Suburban Clinic in Paoli, Pennsylvania, this video focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade. This is a good starting point for any discussion about the role of women in society. Neither side is condemned; neither side is praised.
Celluloid Closet (102 min., 1996). This video assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema same-sex sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many actors, writers, and commentators provide funny and insightful anecdotes regarding the history of the role of lesbians and gay men on the silver screen. It is narrated by Lily Tomlin.
A Century of Women (95 min. each, 1994). These videos tell the story of women in the twentieth century--how they lived, loved, worked, played, and most importantly, changed the course of American history. All three segments use diaries, letters, and personal memoirs.
Chicks in White Satin (25 min., 1993, USA). A mother expresses her dismay as a daughter plans to marry another woman.
Changing Agendas with Gro Harlem Brundtland (28 min., 1990). This video discusses the increasingly important role of women in politics. Journalist Bill Moyers interviews outstanding individuals who explore the ideas and values shaping our future. Featured are scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, historians, and others who share their knowledge.
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (75 min., 1992). This documentary, nominated for an Academy Award, portrays the life and work of the woman described by the Los Angeles Times as the "Rosa Parks of Gay Rights." During the repressive fifties, Dr. Hooker undertook groundbreaking research that led to the radical discovery that homosexuals were not, by definition, "sick." Her findings, along with gay activism, helped win a major victory for gay rights, forcing the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its official manual of mental disorders. This video includes archival footage of medical procedures used to "cure" homosexuality, images from the underground gay world of the McCarthy era, and home movies of literary icon Christopher Sherwood.
The Chilly Climate for Women in Colleges and Universities (30 min., 1994). (Found at the Office of Institutional Equity, Crewson House) This fast-paced half-hour videotape highlights obstacles many women face in academia in the United States and Canada, using clips from interviews with women faculty, administrators, hourly employees, and students. This video is a good tool to help understand and fight sexism, classism, sexual harassment, the glass ceiling, and more.
Clara Barton (14 min., 1983). Clara Barton (1821-1912) left her New England schoolteacher's life to solicit and distribute supplies for the wounded during the Civil War. After the international Red Cross was established in Geneva by international agreement, Barton campaigned for the U.S. government to become a signatory. She succeeded and helped to establish the American Red Cross.
Classical Comedy (Film, 60 min., 1976). Aristophanes' political satire (Ecclesiazusai) has the women of Athens, disguised in their husbands' clothes and sporting beards, rallying to attend a session of Congress where they vote to entrust the government to women. The women's reforms call for compulsory, universal, community property. A proclamation focuses on sex: "all private parts are hereby declared to be public." Plautus' comedy (Miles Gloriosus) revolves around the cunningness of a loyal slave who dumps his present master. Substantial sections from both plays are presented.
Coalmining Women (40 min., 1982). This film examines women coal miners, the social conditions and economic pressures that led them to seek employment in this traditionally male-dominated industry as well as the problems they encountered, once hired. The video traces women's significant contributions to coalfield struggles and the importance of their new positions as working miners.
The Color Purple (154 min., 1985). Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, this video is a richly textured, powerful film set in America's rural south. Whoopi Goldberg makes her screen debut as the radiant, indomitable Celie, the story's central character. The film portrays the story of two sisters separated at adolescence who struggle to reunite in adulthood. The movie shows the hardships and abuses black women encountered in the rural south.
Coming Out under Fire (71 min., 1994). Nine World War II gay and lesbian veterans candidly share their memories of daily miliary life. These powerful interviews are combined with an array of vintage declassified documents, photographs, and rare archival footage of medical examinations, psychiatric sessions, boot camp training, sex education lectures, and "drag" troop entertainment. This documentary uncovers the history of a military policy that labeled homosexuals as mentally ill and sought their discharge as "undesirables." It is a rare personal look at war, secrecy, and the pain of exposure.
The Contributions of Zambian Women to Agriculture (80 min., 1990). This video was filmed in Zambia, of Lozi women with a script written by a Zambian senior extension agent. It shows women helping prepare the soil, weeding, fertilizing, rice harvesting, processing grains, and preparing family food. Women's work is recognized and women receive encouragement to raise cash crops and do income-generating projects. Problems are suggested, but positive images predominate. This is an excellent follow-up audiovisual for a women in development presentation of Africa.
Conversations with Women from the Third World (19 min., 1989). This video on women from Honduras, Nigeria, Kenya, and India gives the audience an opportunity to hear voices of women from Third World areas speaking about women's issues in their countries.
"Crazy Women": Madness, Myth, and Metaphor (60 min., 1990). In January 1990, six former female inmates of psychiatric institutions met in Sioux Falls and talked. This video is just part of their conversation. Covered in their discussion is the Medical Model Theory, the pros and cons of drug therapy, and the value of psychiatric institutions.
Crimes of the Heart (105 min., 1986). Ordinary problems don't seem to daunt the extraordinary McGrath sisters, whose eccentricities have been a family tradition even before their mama chose to hang herself along with "that old yellow cat." An unconventional comedy based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley, it stars Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek as three warm and funny sisters who stand up for each other despite a succession of mistakes and misfortunes.
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Date Rape (28 min. 1985). In this Phil Donahue program, two victims of date rape are joined by a California rape center director and a Chicago psychiatrist. They discuss the growing number of rapes, the psychological trauma involved, and the social and legal difficulties.
Daughter Rite (Film, 53 min., 1979). This narrative fiction film intensively examines mother/daughter and sister/sister relationships. Scenes between two adult sisters relate several different themes from the perspective of mother/daughter tensions. Such themes include childbirth, rape, finance, privacy, independence, competition between mother and daughter, and competition between sisters for their mother's love. These acted scenes are put into perspective by alternating them with sections of old home movies. The accompanying soundtrack is a narrator's voice reading from journals or describing the dreams the daughter is having about her relationship with her mother.
Daughters of the Dust (114 min., 1991). Set in 1902, this acclaimed drama follows a black family, the descendants of slaves, who live in communities on islands off the Carolina coast. As they prepare to move north, the various female members who have returned for a reunion look back on their lives and heritage.
Dear Lisa: A Letter to My Sister (45 min., 1990). Thirteen quite different women describe incidents from their lives revealing their socialization as women and the roles society expects women to play.
Defending Our Lives (30 min., 1993). This moving documentary exposes the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country. This video features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terrifying, often graphic, personal testimonies.
Democracy in a Different Voice with Lani Guinier (37 min., 1995). In the spring of 1993, President Clinton nominated Lani Guinier as assistant attorney general for civil rights. Instructed to remain silent by the White House, Lani Guinier could only watch from the sidelines as conservative opponents of civil rights distorted her views and the media echoed the lies, labeling her a "quota queen." As a result of the controversy and before Guinier was allowed to defend herself in public hearing, President Clinton withdrew the nomination. Outlining her views on race and diversity, Guinier invites the audience into a meaningful dialogue on the meaning of democracy in a diverse society.
Desert Hearts (96 min., 1986). An English professor goes to Reno to get a divorce and falls in love with a young woman who lives at the same dude ranch and works in a nearby casino. This mediocre movie was made from the excellent novel, Desert of the Heart, by Jane Rule.
Desperately Seeking Susan (104 min., 1984). Rock queen Madonna is the free spirit Susan, the woman everyone is looking for. Or is housewife Rosanna Arquette really Susan? No one is sure in this dizzy adventure/comedy that blends romance, stolen jewels, mystery, amnesia, and rock music.
DiAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front (29 min., 1990). Realizing the inadequacy of local information about AIDS prevention, cosmetologist DiAna DiAna, with her partner Bambi Sumpter, took on the task of educating the black and white community about AIDS prevention in Columbia, South Carolina. This funny informative video documents the growth of the South Carolina AIDS Education Network that operates out of DiAna's Hair Ego, the local hair salon.
Diary of Anne Frank (178 min., b&w, 1959). This film is based on the diary of Anne Frank (Millie Perkins), a thirteen-year-old girl who chronicled the lives of two Jewish families hiding from the Nazis. Cramped in a tiny Amsterdam attic, Anne and seven others struggle to survive for two years as sirens in the streets below remind them that Hitler's army is waiting. Yet Anne's inquisitive mind and increasing belief in the future soars beyond her tragic confinement.
Discovering Great Minds in Science: Astronomy (42 min., 1995). Sallie Baliunas, one of the leading astronomers of our age, struggles with answers to the age-old astronomer's questions--Where did it all begin? When will it end? How were the stars formed? Dr. Baliunas is the astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and deputy director of the Mount Wilson Institute.
Discovering Great Minds in Science: Oceanography (50 min., 1995). Host Paul Hoffman discusses the vital role that plants and animals play in sustaining the ocean's ecosystem. His guest is Sylvia Earla, marine botanist and oceanographer.
Discovering Women: Six Remarkable Women Scientists (30 min. unless otherwise noted, 1995).
Discovering Women (all 60 min., 1995).
Dieting: The Danger Point (20 min., 1979). This video examines the physical and psychological dangers of anorexia nervosa. An epidemic number of today's teenage girls are willfully starving and overexercising themselves in the pursuit of a slender figure. This video shows the effects of such behavior on the girls and their families.
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (88 min., 1987). A charming, delightful comedy about a Chinese American family in contemporary San Francisco trying to maintain a link to their cultural heritage while conforming with the changing world around them.
Disappearing World Series: Masai Women (52 min., 1989). The Masai are animal herders in the East African Rift Valley. This program looks at the women of the tribe--from childhood through marriage to old age--and their role in a completely male-dominated society.
The Dollmaker (140 min., 1984). Jane Fonda won an Emmy for her portrayal of a woman in 1940s' rural Kentucky who must keep her family together when they move to Detroit, where her husband has found work. There they must overcome prejudice and tragedy.
A Doll's House (99 min., 1973). Director Joseph Losey's production offers an authentic portrayal of nineteenth-century society and values, while revealing the striking relevance of Ibsen's theme today. This version of the Ibsen play includes Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard, and David Warner.
Domestic Violence (29 min., 1985). This video gives information on common domestic violence and its various statistics. One will see the police and their roles in relation to society's changing attitudes toward the seriousness of domestic violence.
Dorothea Lange: American Photographer (13 min., 1988). Trained as a society photographer in San Francisco, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) abandoned her world of garden parties and debutante balls in the 1930s to document the effects of the Great Depression on Americans.
Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Women (55 min., 1992). Film maker Marlene Booth describes her own experiences as a working mother as well as the experiences of three families (Mexican American, Polish American, and African American) for whom working outside the home was a tradition of several generations of women.
Dream of a Free Country (60 min., 1984). This documentary is about some unusual women the women of Nicaragua who, according to many, were the backbone of the revolution that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. In that war, they provided as much as 30 percent of the armed fighters and also organized a highly efficient underground. After 1979, they formed a grassroots organization called AMNLAE, through which they continue to struggle for social and political change. This film documents the heroism of these women and allows them to speak directly of their struggles, ideals, and dreams.
Dreams of Equality (28 min., 1989). This is a brief account of the actions, specifically the first women's rights convention in 1848, that launched the women's rights movement in North America. A combination of dramatization, narration, and correspondence between Lucy Grishwald and her brother, Silas, is used.
Dreamworlds: Desire, Sex, and Power in Rock Videos (55 min., 1990). There has been a great deal of concern in recent years about the negative and dangerous representations of women contained in music videos. This tape presents an accessible way to talk about these representations and the role that they play in how young people, especially, think about and behave in everyday life with regard to sexuality and gender. It uses the images of music videos themselves, rearranged and recontextualized, to highlight the issues by examining the relationship between video images of women and the problem of date rape and sexual violence toward women.
Dreamworlds II: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Videos (58 min., 1995). An update of the earlier video, this one contains more recent footage documenting the narrow representations of women and discusses how these representations affect how some women think about themselves sexually and how some men think sexually about women.
Dying to Be Thin (18 min., 1995). This program profiles a young woman obsessed with the desire to be thin. It has taken her four hospitalizations and years of outpatient therapy to help her overcome her problem. Doctors in this program discuss the characteristics of anorexia nervosa and bulimia and identify those most likely to be affected by these disorders.
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Eating Disorders (26 min., 1986). This video covers the personality profiles of the likeliest anorexia patients; explains their inability to acknowledge that they are thin enough, shows how anorexia develops, and demonstrates its symptoms. It also explores with some anorexics, how they were cured.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (24 min., 1988). In this video, viewers learn how Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, together with Lucretia Mott, formed the National Women's Suffrage Association. The program also covers the first women's rights convention before the Civil War and looks at Anthony's role as an early supporter of black suffrage following the war.
Elizabeth: The Queen Who Shaped an Age (27 min., 1971). Filmed at Hever Castle, with dialogue based on original documents, this study spans the forty-year reign of the formidable woman who transformed her bankrupt nation into a world power.
Elizabeth R., Parts 1 though 6 (all 90 min., 1971). The six parts cover the life and reign of the legendary Elizabeth I. This beautifully made PBS production, starring Glenda Jackson, portrays the public and personal life of the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Engineering: A Career for Women (25 min., 1987). This video examines engineering as a career for women with an emphasis on college students. It looks at the different engineering fields such as management, industrial, and mechanical and includes segments of classes at Purdue University, as well as interviews with students and women engineers on the job.
Ethnic Notions (56 min., 1987). This video takes the viewer on a disturbing voyage through U.S. history tracing the deeply rooted stereotypes that have fueled antiblack prejudice. These unsettling images help us to understand the history of race relations in America.
Evelyn Fox Keller (30 min., 1994). When in the 1950s, Evelyn Fox Keller sallied forth to become a scientist, she discovered it was a man's world. Training as a theoretical physicist and working in both mathematical biology and the history of science, she wondered why most scientists were men and why the language of science reflected masculine metaphors and values. Keller has grappled with the meaning and consequences of these stereotypes ever since. In this program with Bill Moyers, Keller discusses how gender plays a significant role in the language that scientists use to describe their work.
Evelyn Williams (28 min., 1995). This is a portrait of a woman who is many things: a coal miner's daughter and wife, a domestic worker and mother of nine, a college student in her fifties and community organizer, and an Appalachian African American. Above all, she is a woman whose awareness of class and race oppression has led her to a lifetime of activism. Now in her eighties, she is battling to save her land in eastern Kentucky from destruction by a large oil and gas firm. With humor, eloquence, and at times anger, Evelyn tells her story.
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The F Word (10 min., 1994). A short, snappy, and provocative look at the meanings attached to feminist and feminism, the video combines on-the-street interviews with a diverse group of women and men, with computer-animated quotations from such people as Barbara Smith and Pat Robertson. The video opens up attitudes by raising questions and prompting discussion among students and others.
The Fairer Sex (16 min., 1993). In this ABC News "Prime Time Live" report, Chris Wallace explores how people treat women differently than men. In the video, filmed in Cincinnati, two professional testers are sent to shop for a car, appliances, and even a tee time at a public golf course. And both apply for the same job. While one receives priority treatment (guess which) in nearly every situation, the other is often talked down to, belittled, manipulated, and even ignored.
Family Configurations in the Third World (Slides, 20 min., 1989). This slideshow examines the variety of family types in the Third World as well as some of the reasons for the recent dramatic rise in female-headed households and the special problems facing these women.
The Famine Within (90 min., 1990). The ultra-lean body of the fashion model has become the generalized standard by which most women judge themselves. Under the coercive power of consumerism and mass media, women have come to view their bodies as marketable objects and to judge themselves according to these unrealistic standards. Combining the views of experts with the testimony of a broad cross section of women who have suffered from body obsession, this video explores a hunger that cannot be satisfied by food.
Fast-Food Women (28 min., 1991). This moving video looks at the women of eastern Kentucky who flip burgers and fry chicken at various fast-food restaurants. It discusses how these women, who may have children and are the sole providers for the families, are exploited by their employers.
Fay Wattleton (73 min., 1990). Ohio University's live coverage of Faye Wattleton's oration on fundamental human rights. An Ohio State University graduate, she was then (1990) president of the Planned Parenthood Federation. Wattleton presents important facts and views concerning reproductive choices, privileges, and rights and discusses abortion, contraception, and childbearing as a personal/political issue. The follow up is a question-and answer segment.
Femmes aux Yeux Overts (52 min., 199?). This video, in French with English subtitles, was made by an African woman about an African woman active in the movement against female genital mutilation. She explains why opposition to this practice is easier if presented as a health, as opposed to a women's rights, issue. The video also shows a health worker demonstrating condom use in the marketplace and explaining how diseases are sexually transmitted and businesswomen describing an association to share expertise and provide mutual assistance.
Finding Christa (55 min., 1991). This moving and unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman and her natural mother (the film maker), twenty years after the daughter was given up for adoption. Facing the encounter with mixed emotions the film maker interrogates her family and friends as well as her own motivations behind the decision. The result is an original and personal film that challenges societal biases about adoption and offers new insight into mother-daughter relationships.
Finzan: A Dance for Heroes (92 min., 1990). In Finzan, two women steadfastly resist gender oppression. Director Sissoko expertly illustrates relations and conflicts between women and men, women among themselves, and finally rural communities and the powerful state. It is filmed in Bambara and French with English subtitles.
Firewood (Film, 10 min., 1978). This film looks at daily wood collecting in the Yanomamo Indian tribe of southern Venezuela. A woman patiently and strenuously chops up a large log for firewood which graphically demonstrates the cultural differences in the concept of "women's work."
Flight to Freedom (120 min., 1995). Between 1790 and 1860, thousands of slaves fled the South for liberation on the Underground Railroad. In addition to examining archival photographs, records and artifacts, and interviews with experts and descendants of slaves, conductors, and abolitionists, this program includes spirituals rung by slaves as part of a "code" system and visits homes that were used a shelters. This program highlights Rochester, New York, which was at the heart of the railroad, where passengers were hidden by Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, and others.
Focus on Women (27 min., 1980). Stereotypical ideas of women and ways in which these ideas are perpetuated are examined in this film. Examples in Egypt, India, and the Dominican Republic are cited. Interviews with film stars and producers in India, and television producers in Egypt and the Dominican Republic are shown.
Forbidden Love (85 min., 1992). Bringing several aspects of lesbian history out of the closet, this video is a combination of an (often humorous) fictional drama about a young lesbian's coming out and interviews with ten lesbians, many familiar with the bar culture, who survived the repressive world of the 1950s and early 1960s. There is also discussion with author Ann Bannon about how lesbians were portrayed in the popular fifties' lesbian "trash novels."
Freda Kahlo: Portrait of a Woman (20 min., 1993). Kahlo was a unique, powerful, first-rate painter overshadowed by her lionized painter-husband and a bisexual woman torn apart by her obsessive love for him. This program provides personal insights into her work and her torment. It offers a portrait of the woman and the roots of her work in the meaning of her gender.
Fried Green Tomatoes (130 min., 1991). A nursing home encounter between an unhappy housewife, Evelyn (Kathy Bates), and a spry eighty-year-old, Ninny (Jessica Tandy), grows into an unusual friendship. Ninny tells Evelyn a story of two women who lived a half century before in a town called Whistle Stop and the many obstacles they overcame. The story inspires Evelyn to change her own life.
From Sun Up (28 min., 1987). This film documents the daily life of Tanzanian women as they seek to take their place in their society, as it is influenced through education and the impact of Western civilization. Social values and cultural traditions are being challenged as these women, like all Third World women, reach out for their rightful status.
The Frontier Experience (25 min., 1975). This video shows the dramatic story of Deliah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. It is based on diaries of the period, which reveal the cruel violence and loneliness that early settlers encountered. Above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.
Frontier Nursing Service (29 min., 1984). The Frontier Nursing Service was established in Leslie County, Kentucky. This program shows a unique kind of medical service, as well as glimpses of towns and mountains in eastern Kentucky dating from the 1920s.
Frontline: Search for Satan (57 min., 1995). This Frontline program looks at Mary S., Pat Burgess, and their families who were diagnosed as having multiple personality disorder (MPD) caused by satanic ritual abuse. It also examines the physicians and hospitals where they were treated for this disorder which cost their insurance companies millions of dollars. Both women have been released from the hospitals and do not believe they ever had MPD. All the physicians involved are still practicing but have lawsuits pending against them.
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (45 min., 1989). This videotaped show presents an inside look at some basic issues faced by civil rights organizers during the 1960s. It also reflects the difficulties faced by strong women in the movement and their important role in the struggle.
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Gap-Toothed Women (31 min., 1987). A funny, frisky movie with a light feminist overlay and an undercurrent of self-acceptance.
Gay for a Day/Costumes on Review (35 min., 1988). This video documents the 1976 Gay Pride Parade (11 min.) and Costumes on Review (24 min.).
Gay Voices, Gay Legends (58 min., 1988). Famous and lesser known gay men talk about their lives.
Gender and Communication: She Talks, He Talks (22 min., 1994). Examining the communication gap between women and men, this program explores the different ways the sexes communicate and considers factors that may have contributed to those difference. Among the topics explored are shy males place more emphasis on the literal meanings of words than do females, the different motivations each has for asking questions, and women's use of weakening speech patterns, such as upwards inflections and disclaimers.
Gender Issues in International Development Programs (Slides & tape, 75 min., 1984). This series examines issues of gender differences from an international standpoint. It includes discussions of the invisibility of women in income generation and gender issues, along with agricultural development. Women have separate interests from men in resource use and management because of their dual economic and nurturing roles and specific tasks.
Gertrude Stein: When This You See Remember Me (89 min., 1995). This documentary on Gertrude Stein, writer and renown art collector, combines photographs, interviews, black-and-white-film footage, and paintings from Stein's collection with a soundtrack of her words and music from the opera (written by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson) entitled Four Saints in Three Acts.
A Girls's Own Story (27 min., b&w, 1984). This early short film by Jane Campion (The Piano, Angle at My Table), focusing on Beatlemania, the sixties, and growing up, contains stories about girlhood, where family is strange, adulthood lonely, and innocence perverse.
The Girl (86 min., 1987). A young woman leaves an orphanage to find her mother. The two are reunited but discover they have very different attitudes and thoughts on their sexual roles, dividing them on a whole new plane. In Hungarian with English subtitles.
Girls and Women in Sports (14 min., 1995). This is a series of interviews with the pioneers of women's organized sports exploring the state of women in sports past and present.
Girls in the Gang (28 min., 1994). Girl gang members speak out about life on the street and the security they get from belonging to a gang. Their mothers are frustrated because they feel unable to keep their daughters out of trouble. This specially adapted program from "The Phil Donahue Show" focuses on how girls can be kept off the streets.
Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School (27 min., 1996). Based on the report of the same name, commissioned by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation and written by Judy Cohen and Sukey Blanc, this video focuses on sex discrimination in education.
The Glass Menagerie (144 min., 1988). This adaptation of Tennessee Williams's play concerns a woman, crippled with pleurosis who is sheltered by her mother and lives her life vicariously through her collection of glass figurines. Her brother escapes their mother to lead his own life but is haunted by the memory of his sister. Directed by Paul Newman, it stars John Malkovich and Karen Allen.
Global Assembly Line (56 min., 1986). This thought-provoking video follows the lives of working people in the "free trade zones" of developing countries, as manufacturing industries close labor-intensive operations in the United States to search the globe for lower-wage work forces.
Gloria Steinem: The Battle for Self-Esteem (28 min., 1993). For decades she has fought for the rights of women; now Gloria Steinem reveals what it cost her to be a symbol of the U.S. feminist movement. In this Phil Donahue program, Steinem and her psychotherapist join other women in examining why women appear particularly vulnerable to feelings of incompleteness, self-doubt, and self-hatred and how they battle to overcome these feelings so as to improve their sense of self-esteem.
Gotta Make This Journey (58 min., 1983). Profiling the black female Gospel ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock, this video includes interviews and excerpts from the groups ninth anniversary concert at Gallaudet College and the 1982 Sisterfire Festival.
Great Black Women (52 min., 1991). Brief interviews with twentieth-century black women including segments from videos and film. Clips include musicians, civil rights leaders, actresses, television personalities, women in politics, business women, and dancers.
The Group (150 min., 1991). This movie, based on the novel by the same name by Mary McCarthy, stars Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter, Candace Bergen, and Shirley Knight. It follows the lives of Vassar graduates and is set in the 1930s.
Gui-Dao on the Way: A Station on the Yangzi (60 min., 1981). A train station in Hubei, China, is a background for a glimpse into the lives and customs of the Chinese people. Included are the families and social gatherings of the train station workers which display the great appreciation the Chinese have for the elderly as well as their strong belief in the socialist system.
Gui-Dao on the Way: Some Chinese Women Told Us (80 min., 1984). This documentary shows Chinese working women in their daily lives. Zhong Lee studies in the morning and sells tickets at Wuchang Station in the afternoon. A guard at the station enjoys her work because "it doesn't matter what we do, as long as we serve the people." This video shows how Chinese women find joy in work and play.
Guts, Gumption, and Go-Ahead: Annie Mae Hunt Remembers (24 min., 1992). Granddaughter of a freed slave, Annie Mae Hunt spent her life in Texas picking cotton, ironing shirts, and cleaning other people's houses. Through her own determination, she went into business for herself and was able to buy her own house, educate her children, and become an active voice in community politics. Habbanaae (Film, 20 min., 1979). Through the eyes of a young Wodabe woman and a Wodabe lineage elder, the plight of the Wodabe and other nomadic herders of the Sahel is examined. Increasing agricultural activity has led to soil erosion and decreased pasture land with major consequences.
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Handmaid's Tale (109 min., 1989). The story is set in the future, in the Republic of Gilead, after ecological disasters have ravaged the land resulting in civil war, political turmoil, and widespread sterility. Only a very few women could still bear children. These women are called Handmaids. Kate (Natasha Richardson) is captured and held in the prisonlike training center for the country's few surviving fertile women. Here she befriends "gender criminal" Moira (Elizabeth McGovern). Moira escapes, but Kate is dispatched to the home of the "Commander" (Robert Duvall) and his wife, Serena (Faye Dunaway), where she is to bear the commander's child. The movie is based on the better chilling book of the same name by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Hearts and Hands (60 min., 1989). A chronicle of important nineteenth-century events such as abolition, the Civil War, westward expansion, and women's suffrage, this lovely video presents the lives of often anonymous women, as well as Harriet Tubman, Frances Willard, and Abigail Scott Duniway.
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (28 min., 1993). Framed in the 1909 shirtwaist strike, this half-hour documentary combines motion picture footage, archival photographs and animation and computer graphics to present the panoramic world of immigrant working women in turn-of-the-century New York.
Hedda (103 min., 1975). Glenda Jackson offers a superlative performance in the title role in this highly touted state production of Ibsen's play by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Jackson magnificently captures Hedda's fatal magnetism. Other stars in this video are Peter Eyre and Timothy West.
Helen: Queen of the Nautch Girls (Film, 30 min., 1972). This film follows the career of Helen, superstar of Indian cinema, as she sings and dances in clips from some of her escapist fantasies. It shows some of her off-camera activities as she comments on her life and occupation. The dancing tradition of India is examined in relation to modern Indian culture and the Bombay film industry.
Heroes and Strangers (28 min., 1987). This awarding-winning documentary explores a father/daughter and father/son relationship. Among other issues raised are the social and economic forces affecting the role of men in the family.
Hester Street (89 min., b&w, 1974). Written and directed by Joan Macklin Silver, this movie is set on the Lower East Side of New York in 1896 and features Carol Kane as Gilt, the wife who clings to her old country ways--but ends up the victor in her struggle with her Americanized husband.
Hidden Alcoholics (22 min., 1977). This is a documentary examining a very real, yet hidden problem: female alcoholism. Attitudes toward women with drinking problems have caused many families to avoid, ignore, and even hide the fact that such a problem exists. This film presents actual case histories of two women who disregarded the usual anonymity and have dedicated themselves to helping other female alcoholics.
Home Life (27 min., 1985). Filmed in Esteli, Nicaragua, in August 1984, this video depicts the day-to-day experiences of a family from Esteli and the rest of the people of the village who feel the impact of the U.S.-supported Contra raids.
Homophobia in the Workplace (58 min., 1993). Boston activist Brian McNaught presents his highly acclaimed workshop on video, generating sensitivity, awareness, and open communication about homosexuality and demonstrating how companies can create a supportive work environment for all employees. McNaught assumes that we were all "born" one way or another and argues for inclusion on that basis.
House of Fear: Domestic Violence (28 min., 1994). With domestic-related murders growing nationwide, this program looks at the efforts of one city of reverse this trend. In Nashville the police have formed a special unit to focus on domestic abuse. This program speaks with victims and the police, and we see first hand the results achieved from serving warrants on abusers and getting them into the criminal justice system without involving the victims. The video looks at a counseling program that aims to help abusers learn to stop violence and assesses the effects of domestic violence on children.
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I Am Not a Common Woman (20 min., 1989). In Argentina, "qualquiera" means many things--a nobody, a thing, a Jane Doe. However in slang its meaning is clear--whore. This frank and inventive videotape exploits this double entendre to its fullest, creating a provocative portrait of Latin machismo and female resistance. A chorus of naked men spewing forth insults and stereotypes about women is undercut with interviews with five women, a nun, a homeless woman, a Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, a prostitute, and a midwife. It is filmed in Spanish with English subtitles.
I Am Somebody (28 min., 1987). This video records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, for better working conditions and higher wages. It shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups, plus the local black community, through nonviolent marches and demonstrations.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (60 min., 1989). Born into slavery in a small Mississippi town, Wells had a fiercely independent spirit and struggled against racism and sexism. She became a journalist and schoolteacher, writing one of the first studies on mob violence entitled The Red Record. Her personal sense of integrity and justice carried her into a lifelong crusade against racism, sexism, and other indignities, calling upon women and men of conscience to bring moral, political, and economic pressures to bear on the evils that Wells identified.
"I'm Here for Work: A History of Women at Ohio University" (19 min., 1987). This video, prepared by the Women's Studies Program, focuses on the lives, contributions, and struggles for equality of women at Ohio University: female students, faculty, clerical workers, administrators, kitchen workers, and faculty wives. The time span ranges from 1868, when the university admitted its first woman student, to late 1980s.
Imitation of Life (124 min., 1959). Lana Turner stars as the actress who is too busy to pay attention to daughter Sandra Dee. Juanita Moore plays Turner's black housekeeper, whose daughter runs off to try and pass herself off as white and live a different life.
Improper Conduct (Mauvaise Conduite) (112 min., 1984). This French documentary assesses the persecution in Castro's Cuba, including that of gays. In Spanish with English subtitles.
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love ( 94 min., 1995). Working-class tomboy Randy meets the well-to-do Evie, when she brings her Range Rover in to the repair shop where Randy works after school. This coming-of-age film by new film maker Maria Maggenti makes the perfect date movie.
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo (60 min., 1988). This video chronicles the life and experiences of Angie Debo, author and historian who discovered, through her research, that the five civilized Indian tribes of Oklahoma had been swindled by prominent political figures. She proved these Native Americans had been robbed and even murdered for their oil-rich lands. Debo was banned from publication, but today her nine books serve scholars who study Native Americans and are often used as evidence in court cases involving tribal rights.
In Search of the Trojan War, Part 4: The Women of Troy (50 min., 1985). Helen of Troy is remembered as "the face that launched a thousand ships." But did such a Greek queen really live in the thirteenth century, B.C., and was she carried off by the Trojan prince Paris? To the Bronze Age visitor, Agamemnon's golden Mycenae would have presented an image of overwhelming wealth and splendor. Palace archives tell a less heroic story--of an economy that depended on the sacking of cities, and of women seized in battles as slaves and booty. Have we enough clues to find Helen?
International Sweethearts of Rhythm (30 min., 1996) This video includes interviews and live performances from America's hottest all-female band. Performers include Anna Mae Winburn, band leader and vocalist; Tiny Davis, trumpet and vocalist; Rosalind "Roz" Cron, alto saxophone; Helen Jones, trombone; Helen Saine, baritone and alto saxophone; Evelyn McGee, vocalist.
Interracial Marriage (48 min., 1992). Two generations ago it was a recipe for social ostracism. A generation ago the tongues wagged. Now there are some once totally clannish ethnic groups with a 60 percent rate of intermarriage. This video examines how and why couples of different colors, religions, and ethnic roots are drawn to one another; how their differences affect their marriages; How they deal with their friends; and how their parents make peace with the children-in-law they wish were of their own race or background.
In the Life: A Funny Tape (60 min., 1993). Gay and lesbian television like you've never seen before! The video presents an hour of the best and brightest comedians on public television, including Karen Williams and Lily Tomlin.
Invisible Workers (21 min., 1985). This video examines and discusses the plight of the women's work force in India. Ninety-four percent of the women are self-employed, working on small farms, in home-based manufacturing, and doing manual labor. These "invisible workers" are often treated as unskilled workers. This video discusses alternatives for these unrecognized workers through trade unions and legislation protection.
It's Elementary (77 min., 1996). This video explores what happens when experienced teachers talk to their students about lesbians and gay men. Students are asked to consider issues related to homosexuality at six elementary and middle schools. Footage of classroom activities and discussions are presented with students exploring questions and issues presented to them by teachers and guest lecturers who come into their classes. Schoolwide presentations, activity days, and how these events affect faculty, parents and teachers are also discussed.
It Still Hurts (24 min., 1985). This presentation was developed to stimulate awareness and understanding of the problem of sexual aggression in dating or acquaintance relationships and is specifically designed for college and university students. In the first section, a date-rape scenario is portrayed. The second section presents an interview with a woman who was raped by men whom she believed were friends. A clinical psychologist, who has conducted extensive research in this area, reveals the psychological consequences of sexual violence and the betrayal of trust that results from acquaintance rape.
I've Heard The Mermaids Singing (82 min., 1987). Canadian film about an "organizationally impaired" person Friday falls in love with her female boss, the sophisticated curator of an art gallery.
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Jane: An Abortion Service (57 min., 1995). Jane was a Chicago-based women's health group which, between 1969 and 1973, performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions with no formal medical training. This documentary combines rare interviews, archival films, and private documents, to capture the personal and political realities of this little-known group.
Jane Eyre (239 min., 1980). The video is a vivid realization of the Bronte classic. It stars Zelah Clarke as the determined governess whose willfulness brings her under the brooding Rochester (Timothy Dalton) and Jane's search for her own identity.
Japan: Behind the Mask (53 min., 1988). In Japan the word "tatami" means truth that is publicly displayed, while its counterpart "honai" refers to private truth. Although other languages and peoples make similar distinctions, the Japanese are particularly wary of showing their hidden or undesirable sides to the world. The program looks beyond the public relation images of Japan. The video examines employment, living conditions, education, nationalism, and the treatment of women--and finds major shortcomings.
Jenny's Story (15 min., 1988). Jenny's history from time in an institution, to living in a group home, to ultimately living back with her family is shared by her parents. Teachers discuss the negative impact of other students when students with unique challenges are included in classrooms and their concern about not having training in special education.
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (57 min., 1980). Granny Weatherall (played by Geraldine Fitzgerald) is on her deathbed. Stubborn and once domineering, she faces the long-suppressed realization that all of the accomplishments and acts of her adult life cannot console her for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the altar. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. This adaptation of the story by Katherine Anne Porter shows us the human propensity for self-deception.
Joan of Arc (145 min., 1948). This is the tragic but inspiring story of Joan of Arc's struggle for freedom. Following her career from when, as a simple farm girl, she first hears the voices which cause her to take up arms, we follow her valiant and spectacular successes in the battlefield, her heart-rending confusion as she grows into womanhood, and her final dramatic confrontation with the Inquisition, in which she triumphs over Death. The movie stars Ingrid Bergman.
The Joy Luck Club (139 min., 1993). This is the uplifting story, based on the novel by the same name by Amy Tan, of four remarkable female friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the starting events and conditions that shaped their lives and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for their children.
Just between Sisters: Futures Unlimited (28 min., 1987). This is a discussion of sex roles in the U.S. work environment, which focuses on minority women issues.
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Kathy's Dance (28 min., 1978). Modern dancer Kathy Posn't joyful exuberance and sense of purpose are captured in this colorful film which follows her as she teaches, choreographs, and performs.
Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (Film, 30 min., 1979). Using hundreds of ads from magazines, newspapers, album covers, and storefront windows, Jean Kilbourne has produced a concise and important analysis of a $50 billion industry that preys on the fears and insecurities of every consumer in America. Through years of research, Kilbourne has detected psychological and sexual themes that appear in most ad campaigns and has edited her findings into a highly visual and exciting commentary on corporate persuasion. With an intriguing mixture of statistics, humor, insight, and outrage, she shows her audience that ads may seem harmless and funny by themselves but add up to a powerful form of cultural conditioning with a deadly serious message.
Kim Phuc (25 min., 1984). During the Vietnam War, a photograph of the young Kim Phuc, seared by napalm and running naked down a country road, became world famous. This transcendent image reminded all of the senseless horror of war.
The Kypseli: Women and Men Apart (40 min., 1976) This celebrated ethnographic study of female and male roles in a small Greek village shows how the separation of the sexes and the principle of male dominance have become part of the village's most basic social structure, affecting the daily activities and thoughts of everyone there. Fascinating analysis of a social structure derived from the same cultural heritage shared by all European peoples, and therefore of relevance to the study of social patterns and traditional sexual roles in America.
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La Casa De Mujer--Supporting Women in Nicaragua (10 min., 1992). This video describes La Casa de Mujer (House of Women) which offer support to women throughout Nicaragua. The houses offer women a place to meet, seek refuge, and organize. They also provide vocational training, sex education, legal and medical services. The leader, activist, and revolutionary, Gladys Baez of Casa de Mujer, is interviewed in Leon, Nicaragua.
Las Nicas (45 min., 1984). This video portrays contemporary Nicaraguan women in their struggles from day-to-day. It provides in-depth material on their hopes and problems. They express themselves on the topics of work, sexual politics, religion, family life, children, social participation, and defense.
Last Call at Maud's (77 min., 1993, USA). " Until its closing in September 1989, Maud's was the longest-lasting lesbian-owned lesbian bar in the world. Like many, I took Maud's for granted, assuming it would always be around as a sometime alternative to the dance and cruise clubs which had begun to spring up in the mid and late `80s. And like many I was sad to see it go. Thanks to the director Paris Poirier and her lover, producer Karen Kiss, we now have a film all about the venerable institution and its role as a lesbian watering hole throughout the late `60s, `70s and `80s. This film will be a special treat for those regulars who formed the core social group: the softball team, the yearly Pussies talent line-up, the bartenders, the friends of owner Rikki Streicher, and other associated Maudies. For those like myself, who were more peripheral customers, it's great fun to share the memories with those who kept the place going and who kept Maud's open for three generations' worth of lesbian shenanigans.Last Call at Maud's features interviews at the bar with lesbian luminaries such as Judy Grahn, Sally Gearhart, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, JoAnn Loulan, Mary Wings, Pat Norman, Susan Fahey and of course, Rikki Streicher" (popcorn q).
A League of Their Own (28 min., 1988). In this documentary you'll see vintage newsreels of the "diamond girls" who kept baseball alive during World War II. And, in contemporary interviews, you'll meet the women now as they reminisce about the joy of baseball life.
Leona's Sister Gerri (57 min., 1994). This is from a PBS broadcast, from the POV series, and focuses on the story of Gerri Santora, the then-anonymous woman shown in a police photo. Santora was found naked in a hotel room where she had bled to death after a botched illegal abortion. How the release of the photo, in Ms. magazine, affected the woman's family (particularly her sister Leona) is assessed as is the issue of illegal abortion. The video is followed by several moving interviews with other people (pro-and con-abortion) who viewed the video.
Lesbian Humor: Barbara Hammer (59 min., 1989, USA). "Six inventive, rough, and spirited underground mini-chronicles from a pioneer lesbian/feminist director. More likely to please fans versed in the avant-garde than viewers seeking pre-"Ellen" gay comedy." (reel.com).
Leslie M. Silko (50 min., 1995). Rarer even than Native American writers known outside their own communities are Native American women writers. The best known is Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work is strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, it uses particular experiences and places to reveal universal truths. Here, Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Indian world and the larger, brutal surrounding world.
Letters Home: Sylvia Plath (90 min. 1983). This is a video featuring the dramatic readings of the letters that Sylvia Plath wrote her mother during the years she was developing into a brilliant poet while descending into a psychological hell.
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (65 min., 1980). This film is an effective interplay between propaganda images of working women and the experiences of the women themselves. The story of working women in World War II raises the question of the complex relation between ideology, propaganda, and social reality in the decisions of women to enter the labor force and their experiences once working. (Also available on sixteen-millimeter film.)
Life of Oharu (133 min., b&w, 1952). This video is an exquisitely produced portrait of a woman who is tragically victimized by the brutal strictures of the seventeenth-century feudal Japanese society. Oharu, the daughter of a samurai, falls in love with a petty servant and is caught with him. The servant is executed and she and her family are exiled. Oharu's father forces her to "redeem" herself. This video tells her story and the cruel twists of fate that life deals her.
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (60 min., 1995). This is a portrait of the eloquent, award-winning, black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher, and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writing--spanning five decades--articulated some of the most important social and political visions of this century. This moving film explores a life and a body of work that embodied the connections between the civil rights movement, the women's liberation movement, and the struggle for lesbian and gay rights.
Locking up Women (52 min., 1993). Holloway was once the most feared women's prison in Britain, where a hard-line regime kept women locked up for twenty-three hours out of the day. This program looks at the philosophy of the changes at the prison, at the daily routine of the female criminal, and the increase of violence in women. This video also examines some of the psychological underpinnings of female criminality.
Looking for Langston (45 min., 1989). This film is a musing meditation on the poet Langston Hughes. Across its multitextured elements, the film attempts to reclaim Langston Hughes as an important black gay voice in American culture. This film is a lyrical exploration of black and white gay identities, which include, original footage of the Cotton Club in the 1920s and period blues numbers, setting the scene for this examination of attitudes toward homosexuality, then and now.
Lucia (90 min., 1992). A Filipino woman and her family leave their fishing village after an oil spill and move to the ghettoes outside Manila. There the woman struggles to keep her family together amidst terrorism, crime, and corruption and attempts to prevent her children from falling prey to the allures of the city's night life.
Lysistrata (97 min., 1987). The classic antiwar satire by Aristophanes is brought to the screen with all of its wit and earthy humor intact, as the women of ancient Athens refuse to have sexual relations with their husbands until the men stop feuding with neighboring city-states.
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Mabel Parker Hardison Smith (29 min., 1985). Mabel Smith, of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is a black Appalachian woman who taught school for over thirty-five years in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Smith speaks with eloquence about the history of black migration to the coal camps and about the joy and knowledge that comes from trying to live in dignity and inner peace during difficult times.
Madame Bovary (90 min., 1986). This is a first-rate film version of Flaubert's ground-breaking novel about Emma Bovary, whose effort to realize her romantic fantasies bring her into inevitable conflict with realities of her ordinary life in a provincial town. The production captures the milieu and the astutely drawn characters: the unimaginative husband, the glamorous local squire, the busybody apothecary, and the unfulfilled and unfulfillable Emma herself. It is in French with English subtitles.
Maedchen in Uniform (89 min., b&w, 1931). A young girl falls in love with her female teacher within the confines of a German boarding school during the rise of Hitler. Excellent video, in German, with English subtitles, that parallels the repression of lesbian love and an independent spirit with Nazi rule.
Man-Made Famine (55 min., 1986). Many believe Africa's famine is due to natural causes, such as drought. However, it is actually caused by the neglect of its people, especially the women who have primary responsibility for agriculture. The video examines these and other issues.
Maria and Many Others (22 min., 1993). A spectacular region of Ecuador's Andes mountains, more than 10,000 feet above sea level, is one of the nation's poorest areas. Thirteen-year-old Maria is the eldest daughter in a family of nine children. She helps her mother run the household and to tend their small farm, as 70 percent of the men in this village must leave to earn a living in other parts of the country. Girls in this area are married by age fifteen. Maria knows how to run a household but she has never known what it is to have leisure time to play as a child.
Marie Antoinette (90 min., 1989). This video relates the story of Marie Antoinette's life from the age of fifteen when she was taken from Austria to France to wed King Louis XVI. The young queen soon discovers the pleasure of court, including the friendship of Madame de Polignac and the love of Axel de Fersen. Yet, when the revolution arrives, she is quickly forced to come to terms with herself and her tragic destiny. It is in French with English subtitles.
Marie Curie Finds Radium and Radioactivity (20 min., 1994). Students travel to Paris to visit the office laboratory of Marie Curie and learn the personal story of how she and her husband worked long hours in a nearby shed to discover the new element radium and how Curie coined the term "radioactivity" to describe the strange behavior of these newly discovered atoms.
Marilyn Monroe (30 min., b&w, 1981). She was born Norma Jean Baker...and died Marilyn Monroe. This is the touching portrait of a special woman who wanted most of all to find love. In her turbulent personal life and career, she skyrocketed to super-stardom, only to arrive at the depths of loneliness and tragedy.
Marked Woman (97 min., b&w, 1937). Bette Davis stars in this film based on the spectacular trial of New York "Vice Tsar" Charles Luciano sent to prison on the testimony of prostitutes. Humphrey Bogart plays the righteous special prosecutor who persuades Mary, played by Davis, to testify at the risk of her life.
A Married Woman (95 min., 1984). In one of his first films to critique the position of women in contemporary society, Jean Luc Godard uses a documentary-like style to examine the life of a French woman who is pregnant and torn between her husband and her lover (dubbed in English).
Martha: The Story of a Prostitute (38 min., 1994). She's financially independent, her own boss who determines her own working schedule--a single mother raising a daughter who is not different from other women because of what she is but because of her job. Martha is a prostitute and this is her story, one that has the pleasures and disappointments common to any woman's life, but which is skewed, distorted, and hardened by the feelings she has to repress and the facade behind which she lives.
Mary Silliman's War (94 min., 1993). Instead of focusing on the public dimensions of the American Revolution, this video brings together an array of issues central to the experiences of one woman and her family. Based on two wartime kidnappings that actually occurred in the middle of the conflict, it re-creates the harsh realities confronting civilians drawn into the fray. The enemy, as the video shows, was not just the British; the Americans were also at war with themselves. The video is based on the scholarly biography of Mary Silliman, entitled The Way to Duty by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr.
Mastri--A Balinese Woman (Film, 18 min., 1975). Mastri and her husband, Sukrit, are a young couple whose aspirations are fundamentally similar to young couples around the world. Their village life and religious beliefs contrast the Bali known to the tourists.
The Maturing Woman (Film, 15 min., 1977). Aging has many negative connotations in our society, particularly for women. This film is designed to help the viewer identify attitudes and beliefs about getting older. Vignettes explore how we view and limit ourselves and how we are viewed and limited by others by prevailing myths, stereotypes, and media messages. It is designed to confront issues about aging and maturing and to work toward a change in attitudes: our own and those of society.
Maya Lin: A Clear Strong Vision (98 min., 1994). This video looks at the career of Maya Lin as an architect/artist as told by Lin and others, with special focus on the design and emotional impact of the Vietnam and Civil Rights Memorials.
Meeting the Third World through Women's Perspectives (Slides, 30 min., 1988). These slides emphasize geography and focus on the perspectives on Third World women, as shown through their everyday lives. Change is brought about through beneficial programs often organized by such women.
Member of the Wedding (91 min., 1953). Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, this is the true-to-the-book screen version of the story of motherless, twelve-year-old Frankie Addams (Julie Harris) struggling with the awkwardness of adolescence and filled with dreams about life's possibilities. It includes the incomparable Ethel Waters.
Men and Women: Talking Together (62 min., 1993). In this engaging production, Deborah Tannen and Robert Bly discuss communication between the sexes and field questions from the studio audience, covering such topics as female/male conversational rituals and the politics of shame.
Men's Lives: A Documentary Film about Masculinity in American (Film, 43 min., 1974). This dated film is a powerful reexamination of the socialization process of masculinity that is now in existence. It views the pressures and motivations that shape the roles and general behavior of men in our society. It is perfect for gender courses, conferences on sex-roles and masculinity, libraries, and women's programs.
Midwife's Tale (88 min., 1997) The life of frontier midwife, Martha Ballard, in Hallowell, Maine is reconstructed from her diary by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Millstone Sewing Center (13 min., 1972). The Millstone Sewing Center was founded in Letcher County, Kentucky, by local woman Mabel Kiser is an effort to offer alternatives to typical welfare programs. The center employed elderly local seamstresses, gave clothing to the needy, operated a lunch program, and served as a community gathering place.
The Miracle Worker (107 min., b&w, 1962). This is William Gibson's adaptation of his award-winning play about Helen Keller. Patty Duke (Helen) and Anne Bancroft (Annie Sullivan) won Oscars for their portrayals of the little girl struggling to communicate and the unconventional teacher who relies on sheer instinct to bring light into Helen's world.
Miss Julie (90 min., b&w, 1950). This film is an exceptionally dazzling adaptation of Strindberg's play concerning social and sexual domination. Miss Julie, a noblewoman, allows her butler to seduce her after her engagement is broken. Her actions lead to a haunting and unremitting exploration of how this disgrace begins to destroy her. Filmed in Swedish with English subtitles.
Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (58 min., 1981). The poetry, ideas, and memories of Mitsuye Yamamda, Japanese American, and Nellie Wong, Chinese American, are juxtaposed with rare newsreels, and photos of seldom glimpsed areas of U.S. history. It is a moving and challenging double portrait of two women whose poetry expresses with dramatic clarity the immigrant experience of Asian American women in a society contemptuous and suspicious of "Orientals."
Modern Women: The Uneasy Life (Film, 60 min., b&w, 1967). This is a very dated exploration of the inner feelings of a spectrum of educated women. It seeks the answers to such questions as: "Can the equal woman be a happy woman?" and "Can the educated woman accept the traditional role of mother and housewife, or must she feel frustrated over unused talents and wasted mental energies?" It points out that individual women are beginning to realize a time in their lives when they will be more free than they ever were before and that through the challenge to become more active, many women are learning to face the dilemma and to take advantage of life's opportunities.
The Mosaic Workplace: Sexual Harassment (19 min., 1991). Using the EEOC definition of sexual harassment, this program shows how this demeaning and expensive problem in the workplace takes place, how situations get out of hand, and how the problem can be addressed and stopped. It reviews all the well-worn excuses for ignoring harassment, provides suggestions for action if harassment is suspected, and highlights the cost of failing to take action at various stages of harassment.
The Mosaic Workplace: Understanding Our Biases and Assumptions (14 min., 1990). This program deals with the nature of biases and preconceptions, stressing the tendency of people to think in terms of "us" and "them," and challenges viewers to examine and overcome their own biases.
Mother Ireland (52 min., 1988). This historical documentary examines the imagery which has for centuries portrayed Ireland as a woman. It discusses the social function of romantic stereotypes if Irish womanhood, their relation to the nationalist struggle, and Irish women today. It offers fascinating insights into the interrelationships between nationalism, feminism, and Catholicism, examining the social and political reality behind the cultural stereotypes, thereby revealing the largely unrecorded role of women in Irish history.
Movable Feast, Joyce Carol Oates: American Appetites (30 min., 1990) This profile shows Joyce Carol Oates in her home near Princeton University, a setting much like that of her novel, American Appetites. The author reads scenes from her book and shares her memories and views on subjects ranging from her childhood poverty in Niagara County, New York, to the relationship between her life and the written word.
My Mother Thought She Was Audrey Hepburn (20 min., b&w, 1991). In this funny and often irreverent journey through San Francisco's Chinatown, Suzanne comes to terms with her ethnic identity. Brought up "not to be Chinese," Suzanne is taught to reject all traces of her family's Chinese heritage. Her mother, proud to dress like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy, believed that she had attained the American dream if she modeled herself after such women. Although she never became an active member of white society, she unwittingly fostered a "Chinese self-hatred" in her daughter.
Myths That Maim (46 min., 1992). This rather depressing program aims at examining the way women and men in our culture develop gender identities and learn the relational rule that set up women to become victims and men to be perpetrators of these ever--accelerating "statistics of shame." N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (59 min., 1978). This video provides a historical overview of the daily life of the !Kung, the gathering and hunting tribe in South Africa. It presents the story of N!ai from her childhood to her mid-thirties, showing the contrast in lifestyle between the traditional nomadic !Kung life and a government settlement in Namibia.
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Night Mother (97 min., 1986). Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft are unforgettable in this film adaptation of Marsha Norman's award-winning play. A despondent woman plans to commit suicide and must convince her mother not to interfere with her plans.
No Need to Repent: The Ballad of Reverend Jan Griesinger (27 min., 1989). A documentary using live footage, home movies, interviews, and so forth, to present the life and works of Jan Griesinger, an Athens-based lesbian feminist, peace activist, and ordained minister.
Nonverbal Communication in Magazine Advertising (8 min., 1984). This video is about the way the body communicates different things in advertising. It is a detailed look at the six most popular ideas used in advertising nonverbally.
Norma Rae (115 min., 1979). Sally Field received an Oscar for her performance as Norma Rae, a textile worker whose mundane life is changed by the arrival of a union organizer from New York (Ron Leibman). Overcoming the fears of management reprisal that have kept unions out of the mills for so long, Norma Rae joins his cause, becoming tougher and more determined as the pressure exerted by management intensifies.
Not a Love Story: A Film about Pornography (69 min., 1981). This is a thought-provoking chronicle of the odyssey of two women, Bonnie Klein, the director of the film, and Linda Lee Tracey, a Montreal stripper. Together they set out to explore the world of peep shows, strip joints, and sex supermarkets. Both are motivated by the desire to know more about pornography--why it exists, the forms it takes and how it affects the relationships between women and men. This provocative video offers insights and perspectives from those who earn their living in the porn trade and from some of pornography's most outspoken critics.
Not One of the Boys (60 min., 1984). This video examines the progress women are making and the obstacles they are encountering after a decade of increased involvement in political life.
Not Only Strangers (Film, 23 min., 1980). This film explores the problems and emotional crises of a sexual assault victim, presenting the situation of a college woman attacked by an acquaintance. It illustrates the circumstances under which rape commonly occurs, outlining some misconceptions surrounding rape/sexual assault.
NOW's Twentieth-Anniversary Show (120 min., 1986). More than ten actors and entertainers committed their talents to NOW's twentieth-anniversary celebration, marked by a live, two-hour show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
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Oh Dear (Film, 38 min., 1977). From the opening of the "Female Department" at Oberlin College in 1833 to the pressuring of presidential nominees (Cox and Harding) to endorse ratification of the National Suffrage amendment in 1920, Ohioians have made unique contributions to the development of the early movement for women's rights and to the struggle for women's suffrage. Through still images, music of the time, dramatization, and narration, the film traces these contributions and highlights the roles of Ohio personalities in shaping local, state, and national drives for suffrage. It also outlines the major confrontations between suffragists and their opponents, discussing the relationships between partisan politics, social and religious customs, and special-interest lobbying which fostered and hampered the movement toward women's suffrage in the political arena for seventy-two years. Oleanna (90 min., 1994). David Mamet's much-talked-about film version of his own provocative play involving sexual harassment tells of a troubled college professor falsely accused of making advances to a failing student. With his tenure and family life threatened by the claims, he confronts the young woman in an attempt to understand her motives.
On Being Gay (80 min., 1986). This video catches award-winning author, counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught at home, at the lectern and at peace with himself as he talks with enthusiasm and authority about the fallacies, the facts, and, most importantly, the feeling of being gay in a straight world.
One Fine Day (Film, 6 min., 1984). This film takes images of women from the 1700s through Geraldine Ferraro's nomination for vice-president and weaves them into an inspiring visual collage. The vigorous song, which serves as a narrative, poignantly reminds each of us that "my life is a little easier 'cause she was here...and we'll be all we can, one fine day!"
One Nation under God (83 min., 1993). Film makers Teodoro Maniaci and Francine Rzeznik have created a bizarre and fascinating look into the history of organized religion and medicine's attempts to "treat" homosexuality. They show the often absurd lengths that straight religious and medical people have gone to in their efforts to change gay and lesbians. Includes terrific interviews with Joan Westler, Martin Duberman and other.
One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement (196 min., 1994). This video documents the struggle for fair representation for all Americans, which culminated in the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in the U.S. Senate by one vote. From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying denouncement of the country's subordination of women at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, to the last full-out battle for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, in 1920, this video illuminates the alliances, pressures, disagreements, betrayals, and victories on the way to women's voting rights. Covered are Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell,. Lucy Stone, and others.
Other Families (49 min., 1993). This video explores the perceptions and feelings of seven adults raised by lesbian mothers. These individuals reflect on their relationships with their mothers, family members, and friends and discuss specific problems they experienced growing up in nontraditional families.
The Other Half Speaks (29 min., 1991). Coalmining in Athens County is the subject of this video. It is a story about the role women played during this era. Three women tell about the experiences they encountered and their lives during this period.
Out for a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women's Sports (29 min., 1994). This video addresses the issues of women in sports, homophobia in sports, and the common assumption that all female athletes and coaches are lesbians, and discusses the discrimination attached to these assumptions.
Overseas (96 min., 1992). For three sisters the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria creates an oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic social change erupts around them. In French with English subtitles.
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Pandora's Box: The Roles of Women in Ancient Greece (48 min., 1995). Featuring 138 works of art from fifth century Greece, this video is an overview of the first ancient art exhibition in the world to center on women. With a text by Ellen Reeder, curator of Ancient Art at the Walker's Art Gallery, it provides groundbreaking perspectives into the lives, customs, rituals, and myths of Classical Greece.
Paris Was a Woman (1995, USA/Great Britain). "Written by Andrea Weiss and directed by Greta Schiller (the same team that brought us Before Stonewall, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women), Paris Was a Woman tells the story of the extraordinary community of lesbian artists, writers, photographers, and editors who were drawn to the city of Paris between the two World Wars. This in-depth exploration features home movies and rare archival footage of Collette, Janet Flanner, Gertude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and other luminaries of the time" (popcorn q).
Passionless Moments (13 min., b&w, 1984). A short film by Jane Campion is a series of wry vignettes, including "Angela Eats Meats" and "Ironing on Sunday." Peel (9 min., b&w, 1982). This early short film by Jane Campion, focuses on a hot Australian summer's day, when a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three goes on a Sunday drive in the country that results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence.
Peggy Noonan: Creator of a "Kinder, Gentler America" (24 min., 1994). Lincoln and Churchill wrote their own speeches and Hitler made his up as he roared along. But Presidents Reagan and Bush's speeches were written by Peggy Noonan, who defines in this video what she thinks a political speech should be. Discussing her own political views, she also draws sympathetic portraits of the presidents into whose mouths she put the words they could not find themselves--and lets the presidents and the voters worry about what her often memorable phrases promise.
Persistent Women Artists (28 min., 1996). International artist and educator Betty LaDuke presents a dynamic new look at three U.S. artists of diverse heritages--Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Verlade. The women's powerful personal paintings, drawings, lithographs, and murals reflect their experiences as Native, Asian, and African American women. In their seventh, eighth, and ninth decades, these remarkable artists discuss the political and social obstacles they encountered while continuing to create their vivid images.
Perspectives on Women (60 min., 1993). This program examines how different life experiences influence a person's perspective, leading to a variety of views on feminism and different choices about social action.
The Piano (121 min., 1992). Great fun to discuss just how "feminist" this film is. Directed by Jane Campion, it is the story of the mute Ada, who is desired by two men, one of whom finds the way to her heart--through her piano.
The Pinks and the Blues (58 min., 1980). This is a very dated study of the socialization process that modifies a child's behavior according to common assumptions about what is "masculine" and "feminine." Parental behavior and its role in fostering gender stereotypes is demonstrated by the behavior of a typical family as well as by the influence of schools. Research indicates seven differences in sex roles: boys are more aggressive, active, impulsive, ambitious, and confident; whereas girls are more fearful and more concerned with intimate social relationships.
Pink Triangles (35 min., 1986). A synthesis of many disparate ideas and elements, this video examines both historical and contemporary patterns of persecution in which racial, religious, political, and sexual minorities are singled out as "different," "not normal," or "inferior," and become the victims of a scapegoat mentality of societies under stress.
Pink Triangles: A Study of Prejudice against Lesbians and Gay Men (35 min., 1986). This is an excellent, moving historical view of homophobia from the Nazi era through the present.
A Place of Rage (52 min., 1991). Prominent black women, including Angela Davis and June Jordan, comment on their experience as sixties' activists and the discrimination they faced and continue to face. The women make suggestions for the future and discuss several issues, including racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Plenty (119 min., 1993). This is a screen adaptation of David Hare's highly acclaimed film, charting the clash of attitudes in the postwar world. Susan Traherne (Meryl Streep) returns home to Britain after World War II, haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France. The strong-willed and confident Susan's unconventional behavior begins to affect her own sanity and alters irreparably the lives of those around her.
Pornography: Andrea Dworkin (52 min., 1995). Andrea Dworkin, feminist activist and author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Intercourse, takes the viewer through an unnerving expose of the pornography industry and its implications for wider questions of sexuality and violence.
Portrait of Anorexia (Film, 28 min., 1987). This moving glimpse into the lives of six current and recovering anorexics explores the physical, societal, and psychological experience of anorexia nervosa. The six discuss the family and social pressures that contributed to their encounters with anorexia. Also shown is the slow road to recovery, providing insight into the psychology associated with recovery from anorexia.
Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities (58 min., 1989). This captioned video was designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, political, and economic issues they face. Focusing on three strong women, the video locates disability as a women's issue of concern for us all and discusses education, employment, and careers, sexuality, family life, and parenting, as well as societal issues.
Poverty Outlaw (60 min., 1997). Told in the first person, this story of hard choices posed by living in poverty without society's "safety net," revolves around a woman living in the north Philadelphia area of Kensington. The woman's descent from middle-class security to welfare to abject poverty and the effect of this on the woman and her children is harrowing. Eventually the choices she must make have put her on the wrong side of the law; so, as an "outlaw," she must be anonymous in this video.
Prejudice: Causes, Consequences, Cures (Film, 24 min., 1974). This film shows the historical causes, consequences, and possible methods of education to eliminate prejudice in the United States. It shows prejudice in action with specific emphasis on discrimination against blacks, women, and Mexican Americans.
Pride and Prejudice (126 min., 1940). Based on Jane Austen's classic comedy, this is a story of a family concentrating on getting its five daughters married, focusing on one of the most original female characters in literature. Lovely film version of the book of the same name; the film stars Greer Garson, Lawrence Olivier, and Maureen O'Sullivan.
Promised the Earth (180 min., 1985). This is a documentary centering on the women's movement between the years 1975 and 1985. The narrator, Elaine Lipworth, looks back at the Decade for Women that established the goals for equality in law, jobs, politics, and free choice in marriages. This video examines closely the women of the Third World, the industrialized West, and the Soviet Union. It establishes the fact that women are the poorest people in the world.
Protect Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Self-Defense (60 min., 1987). Robin Cooper, a third-degree black belt, instructs women on how to defend themselves and focuses on improving mental attitude.
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Quest for Peace with Helen Caldicott, M.D. (29 min., 1987). This video of the series, Quest for Peace, features Helen Caldicott and challenges viewers to determine personal roles in furthering the cause of lasting peace. The main topic is "The Urgency of the Problem."
Question of Equality (Four parts, each 55 min., 1995). Part One, Outrage, revisits key historical moments that sparked the sixties gay/lesbian rights movement, including the Stonewall riots and the 1977 Anita Bryant "Save Our Children" Crusade. Part Two, Culture Wars, probes the violent antigay backlash and covers the murder of Julio Rivera in Queens in New York City. Part Three, Hollow Liberty, looks at Bowers v. Harwick and the Clinton administration's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. In Part Four, Generation Q, activists and students in a gay alternative school discuss coming out, suicide, relationships, and family issues.
Question of Silence (92 min., 1983). This extraordinary, controversial Dutch drama, in which three women, strangers to one another, murder a man out of hatred for male-ruled society, won critical acclaim. At their trial, a female court psychiatrist appointed to examine the women comes to sympathize with their views and starts questioning her own nature. It sparks a great deal of debate about feminism, the way women see themselves, and the way men see women.
Quilting Women (28 min., 1976). This video looks at the art of quilting and the countless women who practice it. The vast array of intricate designs is illustrated in huge, eye-catching coverlets. Stills of previous generations of women, quilting in their parlors or on their porches, give way to footage of today's women involved in the steps of quilting from start to finish.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (60 min., 1993). This video tells the story of the book that changed the course of history and the woman who wrote it. Silent Spring, an overnight best-seller when it was published in 1962, was written by Rachel Carson, a marine biologist who delivered to the U.S. public the then-radical message about the dire consequences of the unregulated use of pesticides. The video combines excerpts from letters, books, television programs, and archival footage with interviews to create a vivid picture of Carson and the controversy surrounding her book.
Radha's Day: Hindu Family Life (Film, 18 min., 1969). This film depicts one day in the life of a middle-class Brahmin girl in the heart of Madras in South India. It shows the woman's role in Hindu family life, daily routines, and economic life.
Raise the Red Lantern (125 min., 1991). This film received the Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film in 1991. In Mandarin with English subtitles, it tells the tragic story of the educated Songlian, who becomes the fourth wife to a wealthy man in 1920s' China.
Ramparts of Clay (85 min., 1970). Banned in the countries of its origin (Tunisia and Algeria) due to its portrayal of the impact of political and social forces on the lives of ordinary people, this work centers on a young woman unable to accept the subservient role her society demands. Her growing conflicts with her community parallels the villagers' awakening to their exploitation.
Rape: An Act of Hate (30 min., 1986). Hosted by actress Veronica Hamel, this video seeks to determine why people rape and to help potential victims protect themselves. It examines the history and mythology of rape; explains who its most likely victims are; and interviews experts in the media, law enforcement, and sociology.
Rape: Cries from the Heartland (45 min., 1991). This program reveals a disturbing portrait of rape as it really is--an act of violence not sex. In addition to chronicling the efforts of police and sexual abuse workers, it explores the long-term psychological effects of rape. Filmed at the Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center, it focuses on seven women through the filmed testimony of their experiences.
Rape Culture (Film, 35 min., 1983). This film attempts to expand our society's concept of rape to its real and accurate limits. The notion that rape is an isolated sexual perversion, the product of an individual's deranged mind, is dispelled. The film presents the latest (1983) statistics, the feelings of people who are seriously thinking about the nature and meaning of rape, and the powerful messages of the mass media. It examines popular films, advertising, music, and adult entertainment and records the insights of rape crisis workers and prisoners working against rape.
Rape Prevention: Trust Your Instincts (18 min., 1989). Dramatic vignettes illustrate situations where women should trust their instincts and also present a chance to practice nonviolent response options that can dramatically reduce pain and fear during the initial states of physical confrontation. In teaching women to raise their level of awareness about their surroundings, this program instills an effective nonviolent approach to rape intervention.
Rate It X (95 min., 1988). A frank, humorous, and rather provocative documentary about what some men really think of women.
Rebel Hearts: Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the Antislavery Movement (57 min., 1994). This video discusses the life of Sarah (1792-1873) and Angelina (1805-1879) Grimke, two sisters from South Carolina who were well known for their writings and public speaking against slavery. The video also discusses their involvement in what would become the women's rights movement in the United States.
Recovering Bodies: Overcoming Eating Disorders (34 min., 1997). The focus in this video is not simply on the problems people have with food but also on the renewed hope for a healthy life that the process of recovery provides. The stories and testimonies of seven college students show the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating, as well as a variety of psychological and physical symptoms involved.
Regarding Ourselves: Women in Social Work (40 min., 1986). This video looks at the roles played by women leaders, many quite radical for their time, in the creation and development of the social work profession, from the early nineteenth century through the late 1980s.
Rethinking Rape (26 min., 1986). This video presents a basic look at the complex issues surrounding acquaintance rape, female/male relationships, and societal influences which shape our attitudes, that is, parenting, schooling, advertising, and films. This video was produced by the Stanford University Rape Education Project to stimulate and encourage awareness about acquaintance rape and the societal images of women.
The Rice Ladle (28 min., 1982). This video investigates the role of women in Japan's work force, focusing on a young, would-be pop star and a widow who supports herself as a cook's assistant in a sushi shop. It shows how a woman's desire for a paid career clashes with society's expectations that she will be first and foremost a homemaker.
The Right to Marry (72 min., 1996). This video explores the various issues surrounding lesbian and gay marriages including those dealing with religious, legal, social, and economic problems. The video includes both random interviews with people on the street and more formal statements from a variety of people and shows footage of a number of gay marriages.
Roe vs. Wade ( 92 min., 1989). Ellen Campbell (Holly Hunter), desperate to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, meets a young attorney (Amy Madigan) determined to prove the Texas law forbidding abortion is unconstitutional. The emotionally charged case of "Jane Roe" was ultimately argued all the way to the Supreme Court, changing the course of women's reproductive rights in this country.
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Saint Joan (111 min., 1957). This is a controversial film from Otto Preminger that adapts Shaw's retelling of the life and legend of Joan of Arc. Jean Seberg, in her screen debut, plays the heroic maiden.
Saints and Spirits (26 min., 1979). This video by Elizabeth Fernea and Melissa Llywelyn-Davide is part of "Women in the Middle East," a series that looks at the changing lives of women in the Arab world. The video explores the personal dimensions of Islam during three religious events in Morocco: the festive annual renewal of contact with spirits in Marrakech, the pilgrimage to the shrine of Sidi Chamharouch, and the veneration of a new saint's shrine.
Salt of the Earth (94 min., b&w, 1954). This video tells of the true-life struggle of a mining community to achieve better working and living conditions. In a startling anticipation of social changes, this video makes an eloquent plea for economic and sexual equality. The production includes some who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Sarah Bailey (29 min., 1984). This film looks at a remarkable folk artist from Harlan County, Kentucky, who "invented" dolls and flowers made from corn shucks, showing her work and demonstrating her craft. Known not only for the beauty of her work, but also for her kindness and abilities as a teacher, Sarah Bailey gives one a look at simple self-sufficient living.
Science: Woman's Work (27 min., 1982). You will visit seven women on the job and hear what they find challenging about their careers in science. This program will help students--particularly young women--discover how math and science courses can lead to a satisfying, successful career.
Search for Common Ground (30 min., 1989). Hosted by Scott Simon of National Public Radio, this video explores the common ground on abortion between both pro-choice and anti-abortion advocates. Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, and John Wilke, president of National Right to Life, challenge, discuss, and listen to each other more closely than ever before as they build a point-by-point framework of agreement.
The Secret Life of Mary-Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic (30 min., 1993). This is the true story of an all-American girl who seemed to have it all but was secretly coping with a tragic eating disorder. The program identifies signs of bulimia and anorexia and concludes with an on-camera appearance by Mary-Margaret.
The Secret of the Sexes (60 min., 1987). This program investigates female and male stereotypes and explores how the behavior of adults, at home and in school, shape how children behave throughout their lives. Noted scientists and psychologist explain how adults consciously and unconsciously typecast boys and girls by how they act toward them.
See Dick Run (Film, 14 min., 1987). Everybody knows someone like Dick--a middle-aged, middle-class, worker at a mid-level management job, living in middle American. This political satire pokes fun at film and television's fondness for fragmenting women's bodies. Through a claustrophobic visual and aural style, it portrays a unique view of masculinity.
See Jane Run: How Women Get Elected (56 min., 1996). This video presents an arresting overview of a unique program at a prominent Ivy League university which has created a school to train women in the fundamental skills necessary to be successful political campaigners. Through the eyes of several veteran women politicians, including Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice-president of the United States, gubernatorial and other candidates, you'll hear war stories about winning and losing. This documentary looks at women as politicians, women as candidates, media skills, fundraising, and ethics.
Senso Daughters (Daughters of War) (54 min., 1989). This video investigates a World War II tragedy that went unacknowledged until after the release of this film: the Japanese army's mistreatment of New Guinean women during Japan's "Forgotten War" there and the abuse of "comfort girls," military prostitutes, generally Koreans or lower-class Japanese women (for the officers), conscripted believing they would cook and clean for the troops. Because women had no official military status except as nurses, 90,000 comfort girls were shipped to battle sites as "military commodities," without names or identities, without records through which they could be traced. With testimony from New Guinean women and denials by Japanese who were there, the video has provoked considerable controversy in Japan because the Japanese film maker not only exposes a shameful episode in her nation's past but also indicts the culture that fostered it.
Sexism in Language (25 min., 1991). This video presents closely analyzed examples that show how sexism and antisexism may be contained in language use--in song lyrics, everyday conversation, newspaper reports, written conventions, and satire. In many cases, gender bias in language is extremely subtle. But this subtlety does not detract from its ability to influence the thoughts and perceptions of speakers and listeners. Indeed, bias that is never consciously recognized may be the most damaging.
Sexism in Language: Thief of Honor, Shaper of Lies (29 min., 1995). This is a basic discussion of sexism, sometimes quite unintentional, in both the syntax and semantics of language. The video looks at "female" words that are dependent on a "male" version, words that are positive for men but not for women, words for women that carry negative connotations, and words that become inferior when applied to women.
Sexual Stereotyping in Media: Superman and the Bride (40 min., 1993). Although this video was printed in 1993, it is a British production made in the seventies. It shows how pervasive stereotypes are of man as Superman and woman as his slavish bride--on film and television, in the fiction on which they are based, and even in "documentaries."
Shame (95 min., 1962). This Australian film chronicles the experiences of Asra Cadell, a stranger stranded in a town where local boys roam the streets drinking and assaulting women. She remains in town to protect a young woman who presses charges against the men who raped her, but more violence follows.
Shaving (10 min., b&w, 1979). "Shaving" is part of a video series conceptual artist, Connie Samaras, did in the late 1970s and early 1980s examining the social construction of gender. Drawing from performance art which incorporates autobiographical narrative, Samaras performs a humorous monologue about the problems that arise for women who have facial hair. Because the tape presents a real time stream-of-consciousness rather than a scripted performance, the result is a complex interplay between the artist's critique of gender and her psychological obsession with a "clean-shaven look."
She's Nobody's Baby: A History of American Women in the Twentieth Century (36 min., 1981). This video, narrated by Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda, chronicles the role of women in society from the turn of the century to the end of the 1980s. It is a compelling portrait of social reformers, labor leaders, homemakers, and factory workers and illustrates how this movement cuts across all social and racial strata to accomplish the recognition of women's rightful place in society.
Shirley Verrett: A Film Biography of the Black Diva (60 min., 1985). This is a video biography of Shirley Verrett, following her professional and private life during the course of a year. Performance extracts show the singer in many of the dramatic opera roles which she made her own. The program also includes Verrett performing blues and spirituals, interspersed with interviews.
Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America (19 min., 1992). Based on an American Association of University Women report, this video examines gender bias in the schools, including how girls are often discouraged from taking advanced math and science courses. It also explores the damaging effects of this bias on women and society.
Shoulder to Shoulder (Six videos, 58 min. each, 1974). This wonderful series commemorates the history of women's suffrage in Great Britain. Filmed for the BBC, the series, starring Sian Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, among others, works in class issues, philosophical differences, and political realities faced by the women who fought for the vote in England.
Silver Wings and Santiago Blue (60 min., 1980). One thousand women pilots of World War II, the WASPs, braved physical danger, hardships, and prejudice to serve their country. Combining vintage newsreels and Air Force film with recent footage of the congressional hearings, their recognition ceremony and reunion, this video is a testimonial tribute to the courage and service of these women.
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline (60 min., 1988). This moving PBS presentation describes the true story of thirteen-year-old Emeline Gurney, who was sent by her impoverished parents to work in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the only mill town designed to employ and accommodate young women workers from all over the northeast. In Lowell, her life is changed forever and she ends up, isolated in a rural area.
Sippie (23 min., 1982). This video explores the life and music, wit, and wisdom of classic blues singer/songwriter Sippie Wallace. Featuring concert footage, conversations, rare recordings, and photographs, it documents an exciting aspect of America's blues and jazz heritage and exposes a new generation to the artistry of Sippie Wallace and to the women of the classic blues.
Six Wives of Henry VIII (Six-part series, approx. 90 min. each, 1990). They are all here--Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr--and Henry!
Slaying the Dragon (60 min., 1988). This work provides a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian women since the silent era, and it shows how stereotypes of exoticism and docility have persisted over the years. The video includes interviews with actress Nancy Kwan and others.
Slim Hopes: Advertising and Obsession with Thinness (30 min., 1995). In this video, Jean Kilbourne offers an in-depth analysis of the role female bodies play in advertising imagery and the resulting devastating effects on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, the presentation offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and provides a well-documented critical perspective of the social impact of advertising.
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (58 min., 1985). In rural China a newborn son is called a "great happiness," but a newborn daughter is often a "small happiness." In this video, a powerful exploration of sexual politics, Chinese women speak frankly about footbinding, the new birth control policy, work, love, and marriage.
Someone You Know: Acquaintance Rape (30 min., 1986). This documentary contains candid interviews with victims of acquaintance rape and interviews of convicted rapists. Emphasizing the disparity of experience are women who maintain a constant sense of fear years after the crime. The men speak of women who "owe" them sexual favors after being taken to dinner, believe that rape was an act of love, and insist that the more the women resisted, the more they wanted to be taken.
Songs of the Exile (100 min., 1991). This is the ninth film of Ann Hui, internationally recognized chronicler of Asian life. The film (in Mandarin and Japanese, with English subtitles) follows Hueyin Cheung who returns home after graduating from a British university, to attend her sister's wedding. We watch her come to terms with her memories of her childhood in Macao through a visit to relatives in Japan. Significantly, her emotional homecoming brings her much closer to understanding her mother.
Sorceress (98 min., 1988). This is a highly suspenseful drama revolving around Etienne de Bourbon, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar who, sent by the pope to seek out heretics, arrives in a small French village where he discovers Elda, the mysterious forest woman. Etienne sets out to investigate the rites of the highly respected healer and practitioner, and a confrontation between the two sets of beliefs forms the basis of this moving film, which is a historically accurate dramatization of the conflict between ancient customs and religious dogma.
South Africa Belongs to Us (35 min., 1980). This intimate film portrait of five black women describes how apartheid impoverishes, dehumanizes, and ultimately enslaves. It is the clearest introduction to the system of apartheid, its effect on family life, and the singular economic and emotional burdens it inflicts upon black people.
South: This Is Not Your Life (15 min., 1991). Winner of the 1993 Margaret Mead Film Festival, this video focuses on the life story of a Brazilian woman chosen randomly by director Jorge Furtado. Noeli Cavalheiro was raised by godparents after her father's death and grew up raiding neighbors' tangerine orchards and playing at giving birth with her girlfriends. She married a black man, displeasing those around her. Noeli could be just another demographic statistic but Furtado's point is that "numbers have no name, people have a name. Everyone has." For viewers who might find this troubling, Furtado assures them that there is no need to worry: "This is not your life."
Spirits Rising (56 min., 1995). Women in the Philippines is the focus of this video, which utilizes myth, literature, news footage, and interviews with President Cory Aquino, Imelda Marcos, and prominent individuals who facilitated the "people power" movement.
Sports Injury Concerns: The Female Athlete (60 min., 1994). This up-to-date review focuses on critical injuries pertaining to female athletes, including the prevalence of amenorrhea, the alarming rate of eating disorders, and the special effect of physiological and sociological factors on performances and injury risk.
The Sports That Set the Styles (Film, 28 min., 1970). Sports--specifically women's sports--have influenced fashion and contributed to the freedom of dress enjoyed by modern women. This film examines the history of women in sports and shows how the clothes they wore on the playing fields, golf courses, and beaches eventually found their way into the home and into society.
Spy in the House That Ruth Built (30 min., 1989). Vanalyne Green appropriates the all-male arena of baseball to create a visual essay about family, loss, and sexuality. Green interprets baseball's symbolism--its womblike landscape, cycles, and rituals--and constructs an iconography that pays homage to the female.
Stale Roles and Tight Buns: Images of Men in Advertising (25 min., 1988). This presentation is a selection of images of men found in consumer advertising. Through these, we see the myths used to define and limit the American man. It is a carefully chosen sequence of advertising images along with analysis and commentary. Audience members can share their reactions and feelings about the basic issues.
Still Killing Us Softly (30 min., 1987). Jean Kilbourne, nationally known media analyst, lecturer, and writer, explores the hidden messages of advertisements in this video. She had detected psychological and sexual themes that appear in many campaigns and has edited her findings into a highly visual and exciting commentary on corporate persuasion. Stop Sexual Harassment on Campus (24 min., 1988). This instructional video tape includes dramatizations, narrator commentary, and student interviews to examine sexual harassment on campus. The dramatizations realistically depict the intricate behaviors constituting sexual harassment and presents possible solutions; student interviews validate the effects of sexual harassment.
The Story of Qui Ju (100 min., 1993). By Zhang Yimou, this film tells the story of a stoic peasant woman who demands an apology when her husband is kicked in the groin by the village chief. When the chief refuses to apologize, Qui Ju (played by Gong Li, of Raise the Red Lantern) embarks on a futile trek through the complicated Chinese court system and embattles the bureaucracy and indifference. It is in Chinese with English subtitles.
Strangers in Good Company (105 min., 1990). This multi-award-winning Canadian film portrays female bonding and strength of spirit in a time of crisis. The main characters, eight women from different walks of life, are stranded in the wilds of northern Quebec and tell about their lives.
The Styles That Made a Splash (Film, 20 min., 1977). This film illustrates the evolution of the female "bathing costume." It traces the battles women waged in their successful quest for a simple, functional bathing suit.
Sue's Leg--Remembering the Thirties: Twyla Tharp and Dancers (Film, 60 min., 1977). This film presents Twyla Tharp, one of the nation's most talked about choreographers, and her company as they perform her creation "Sue's Leg," using some of the music of the late jazz great, Fats Waller. It juxtaposes this formal choreography against a collage of film scenes from the 1930s to show the richness of variety of American popular dancing which has heavily influenced Tharp's style.
Sugar and Spice (19 min., 1983). This documentary examines the effects of sexual fantasies upon women's and men's roles in today's world. June Callwood, a rape counselor and narrator of the movie, explores the possibility that the problem of rape has its roots in the way girls and boys are conditioned in early life for their adult roles: girls are taught to be passive and submissive while boys are taught to be active and aggressive.
Susana (25 min., 1980). Susana is a lesbian who leaves her native Argentina to live her life away from the family and societal pressures of her country. An autobiographical collage of snapshots, home video, and interviews with Susana's family and lovers, this video examines the shaping of a woman's sexual and ethnic identity within a culture.
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Take the Power (7 min., 1987). Kay Weaver's stirring celebration of contemporary women's lives, this is the sequel to the award-winning film "One Fine Day." It moves from the historical into the present and toward the future.
The Tale of the Genji (60 min., 1993). The Tale of Genji is one of world literature's earliest novels antedating Don Quixote by 600 years. Its author, Murasal Skikibu, is surely the world's first woman novelist. And, quite aside from its age and novelty, it bears all those characteristics that make a work of literature "great." This extraordinarily beautiful program traces the plot--which centers on the romantic relationships of the noble hero, Genji--through the panels of a series of illustrated handscrolls dating from the early twentieth century. The program explains both Genji's adventures and the visual effects created by the paintings, decorated paper and calligraphy of the scrolls, making accessible to Western audiences a formative work of Japanese culture and one of the milestones of world literature.
The Tale of "O"--On Being Different (27 min., 1981). This video is based on research from the award-winning book, Men and Women of the Corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and is an innovative presentation that explores common issues facing any individual who must work or live with people from whom she or he is different, and how they manage the situation.
Taram: A Minagkabau Village (Film, 22 min., 1975). In the village of Taram, the clan inheritance is passed from mother to daughter--a matrilineal society. The husband is considered a guest, a man of high rank.
Thelma and Louise (130 min., 1991). Thelma, an unhappy housewife, and her wise-cracking waitress friend, Louise, decide to take a break from their lives. After a tragic occurrence at a roadside honky-tonk, their weekend "getaway" becomes just that as they flee across the American Southwest with police just a two-step behind.
These Hands (45 min., 1992). Flora M'mbugu Schelling's quiet and moving tribute to women at the very bottom of the international economic order deepens into a profound meditation on human labor itself. Watching these women crushing rocks in a desolate Tanzanian quarry, care for their children, and sing their work chants, the film--without narration or plot or interpretation and analysis--forces viewers to take a broader view of the global economic system in which these women, and we, are hopelessly enmeshed. It is filmed in Swahili and Kimakonde with English subtitles.
Third World Women--Family, Work, and Empowerment (19 min., 1988). This program is meant to introduce views to the contemporary concerns of women in the Third World and their contributions to the welfare of their families and their countries' development.
Three Generations of Javanese Women (29 min., 1980). A group of rural Javanese women--grandmothers, mothers, and granddaughters--talk about their sex roles, family life, village society, and family planning concerns. Insight into the changing role of women in the Third World, as well as stimulating thought and discussion about the roles of women in developed countries, is provided.
Three Sovereigns for Sister Sarah, Volume 1 (112 min., 1986). A true story of the witchcraft trials in the 1600s. In the first two episodes, children start experimenting with witchcraft and become "possessed" with evil, resulting in the trials of many townspeople. These trials put hundreds of people in jail and others were hanged or pressed to death during this period of "witch hysteria."
Three Sovereigns for Sister Sarah, Volume 2 (51 min., 1986). In this volume, the older sisters are hung along with many others. The youngest sister, Sarah, is in jail for one year before the chief justice let the accused go. Afterwards, Sarah tries to clear her sister's names before she dies.
The Times of Harvey Milk (88 min., 1986). This moving video, with interviews, documents the life and death by assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Tongues Untied (55 min., 1989). This controversial film by the late Emmy-Award-winning director Marlon Riggs, is a tribute to the joy and complexity of black gay life. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance, it describes the homophobia and racism that confronts black gay men.
Toni Morrison (52 min., 1987). Toni Morrison discusses slavery and its legacy and the difficulties of writing about the painful subjects that occur in her novel, Beloved.
Treyf (54 min., 1998, USA). Official Selection: Margaret Mead Film Festival (November, 1998: American Museum of Natural History, New York City). "This smart, politically-engaged exploration takes a trek from the delis of New York's lower East Side to the streets and settlements of Israel as the filmmakers (a lesbian couple who met at a Passover seder) discuss their Jewish identity, their lesbian identity and their love for one another" (popcornq).
Trifles (22 min. b&w, 1974). This award-winning film adaptation of the one-act play by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell centers around an investigation involving a wife who kills her husband. The men are baffled but not the women. The play explores isolation, powerlessness, and compassion.
Turning Point, the Framingham Eight: Women Who Fought Back (70 min., 1994). This video is about eight women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/lovers. The video includes interviews with the women, their families, and their friends. It explores the use of the battered women syndrome in a defense for murder and how laws have been changed to help victims of abuse.
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Udju Azul Di Yonta (The Blue Eyes of Yonta) (90 min., 1991). Director Flora Gomes offers a bittersweet portrait of the disillusionments of the revolutionary generation in Guinea-Bissau and the vibrant, if unintended, society that developed after independence in 1973. The story is of three people, each of whom is so in love with her or his dreams that they miss the real opportunities that life offers.
Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt (67 min., 1996). Based on The Voice of Egypt, by Virginia Danielson, this video focuses on Umm Kulthum, the celebrated diva of the Arab world. She was a powerful symbol, first of the aspirations of her country, Egypt, and then of the entire Arab world. This documentary puts her life in the context of the epic story of twentieth-century Egypt as it shook off colonialism and confronted modernity.
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Veiled Revolution (27 min., 1982). Egypt was the first Arab country where women marched in political demonstrations (1919). In 1923, women removed their veils publicly and a year later were offered free secular education. But today the well-educated granddaughters of those early Arab feminists are returning to Islamic dress, complete with full face veil and gloves. The possible reasons for this turn back to tradition are the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism and the rejection of Western values.
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Waking Up to Rape (35 min., 1985). This is a discussion with women who have experienced rape. It includes prevention and self-defense techniques.
Walk without Fear (Film, 20 min., 1970). Especially geared for women audiences, this film gives detailed information about what to do and how to prevent physical bodily attack.
War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us (95 min., 1995). As the men left to fight World War II, New Zealand's young women were left not only to produce food and munitions but also to keep their families together and provide love and support. In order to carry on, many women buried the distresses of the war and its burdens. Now in their seventies and eighties, seven of these women of different classes, races, and cultural backgrounds, speak (some for the first time) about the impact of the war on their lives.
We Will Not Be Beaten (25 min., 1987). For the past ten years, this moving documentary has been used by hundreds of educators to build awareness and understanding of the problem of domestic violence. Recently updated, the documentary contains gripping firsthand accounts of abuse and new information about our legal response to battering and the options that exist for victims.
What Follows: Guerrilla Girls (38 min., 1989). This video focuses on a group of disguised women who are intent on making the art world conscious of the lack of opportunities for female artists.
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (28 min., 1992). Focusing on a largely undocumented era, this work reveals the physical, emotional, and legal consequences to women when abortion was legally considered a criminal act. This poignant oral history weaves together the untold stories of desperate women and those who tried to help them.
When I Grow Up (Film, 18 min., 1977). This is a film about vocational choices--especially the choices educators unconsciously make for students that are based on sex-role expectations. It will help you rethink this aspect of teacher/student interaction and to broach the subject of sexual bias in education.
When Night Is Falling (94 min., 1995). This beautiful Canadian film tells the story of Camille, a teacher in a fundamentalist Christian school in Toronto, who comes to recognize after the death of her dog, Bob, that she loved him more than most people she was supposed to love, including her colleague and lover, Mark. Grieving in a laundromat, she is comforted by Petra, a performer in an avant garde circus, and a romantic relationship between the two begins.
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (58 min., 1989). This video shows how economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century gave birth to the blues. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainy, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. This film compiles for the first time dozens of rare, classical renditions of the early blues.
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope (34 min., 1972). Based on authentic records, this production shows how the hysterical behavior of a few young girls sets off the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
With Babies and Banners (45 min., 1978). This classic work presents the story of the women who became the backbone of the Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike of 1937--U.S. history's key event in the drive for industrial unionism. Forty years later, nine of these women reunite and discuss the strike and its relevance to women today.
A Woman Called Moses (200 min., 1992). This film stars Cicely Tyson as Harriet Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led thousands of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. During the War, Harriet Tubman aided the Union Army as a reconnaissance agent, mobilizing black troops against the Confederates, freeing slaves, and staging raids on plantations.
A Woman's Place (25 min., b&w, 1986). This video, narrated by Julie Harris, examines women's traditional role in society and shows how today's women are rethinking those roles.
The Women (133 min., 1939). Based on the play by the same name by Claire Booth Luce, this 1939 motion picture was directed by George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) and stars Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Norma Shearer, among others--women fighting with all the weapons they believed they had at the time to get what they want. Everything about the cast--all 135 of them--including the animals, is female. Even the photographs and art objects are all of women!
Women and AIDS (28 min., 1989). This video depicts the struggle women are having with AIDS, how blacks and Hispanics are hit the hardest, and explains how until only recently, the "high-risk" areas were targeted in advertisements. Methods of protection against the AIDS virus are well documented.
Women and AIDS: A Survival Kit (43 min., 1988). This kit attempts to raise awareness and provide education about the risk of the AIDS epidemic to heterosexual adult women. The video is designed to integrate the basic medical information into discussions of the psychosocial and emotional aspects of the disease.
Women and Creativity (28 min., 1989). Host Bill Moyers examines how creative, artistic women handle their lives. He interviews Judy Chicago, Benjie Lasso, and Mary Gordon.
Women and Latin America in Political Struggle (28 min., 1987). Women deserve much of the credit for the return of democracy to many Latin American nations. Many of these women disappeared, but their places in the protest lines were filled by a growing number of women wanting justice. This video shows the struggle that these women went through in the name of their country and democracy.
Women and Public Policy (120 min., 1994). This teleconference from the University of California, Santa Barbara, provides different views of gender as it relates to making public policy. The speakers are Cynthia Harrison, author of On Account of Sex, a book dealing with public policy and women's issues in the twentieth century; Wendy Webster Williams, J.D., dean of the Georgetown University Law Center; Maureen Budetti, principal legislative analyst at the University of California; and Martha Burke, president of the Center for the Advancement of Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
Women and Technology: If It's Not Appropriate for Women It's Not Appropriate (Slide/tape, 14 min., 1986). This slideshow depicts how women have been excluded from the powers that decide the direction of technological development. Appropriate technology must go beyond marginally changing the condition of poor women. To be appropriate for women, technology must take them into the twenty-first century and help them to participate fully in the economic, social, and political spheres of our countries.
Women and Work in Latin America (25 min., 1991). This program examines the work of the overwhelming majority of women in Latin America as farmers, domestic servants, and traders in the informal sector. Other occupations, such as factory work, are described. The importance of the double day for women in Latin America is emphasized with examples of women making economic contributions to their families while caring for children and carrying out domestic chores.
Women and Work in South Asia (filmstrip/video, 33 min., 1989). Images of women in a wide variety of work activities in urban and rural areas are shown, including South Asian women's contributions to their families' survival and to regional development. This work also includes women from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan.
Women Doing Time (48 min., 1992). The number of women in prison in the United States today has doubled since 1981. This "Forty-Eight Hours" program goes inside New York's Bedford Hill Correctional Facility, one of the oldest U.S. prisons for women, to see what it means for a woman to serve time. It considers what offenses women are most likely to commit and what happens to mothers who are imprisoned.
Women for America for the World (30 min., 1985). This is a documentary about women who actively oppose the arms race. It is passionate and peppered with facts, containing on-screen interviews, charts, graphs, and other visuals to illustrate such facts as: "10,000 American children die each year from poverty" or "Between 1981 and 1983, Boeing and Lockheed made profits of more than $1 billion each. They paid no taxes." Also, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Vice-President, Addie Wyatt, explains why she thought women should speak out against nuclear war.
Women in American Live Video (Five parts, 15-24 min., each, 1988). This five-part feature presents more than 700 historical photographs selected from dozens of photo archives throughout the country. The period covered is 1861 to 1977.
Women in Love (129 min., 1970). This is a lush version of D.H. Lawrence's novel about the love affairs of two couples. It includes Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson.
Women in Management: Threat or Opportunity? (Film, 29 min., 1975). This film examines the stereotypes commonly associated with women in business. It shows how a program at Weyerhauser Lumber Company has helped women and men deal with new relationships caused by affirmative action programs in the new role for women.
Women in Politics (58 min., 1992). This video looks at the rising number of women on the political scene and their impressions of politics. Harriet Woods (president, National Women's Political Caucus) and Jane Danowitz (executive director, Women's Campaign Fund) discuss challenges candidates face.
Women in Science (47 min., 1994). This newly updated live action video was created to help students, female and male, understand why women have not played major roles in science in the past and why today they are coming on in such strong numbers and are of such high quality.
Women in Sports (Film, 28 min., 1976). Women competing in a twenty-six-mile marathon provide an exciting symbol of women's true physical capabilities. The struggle and glory portrayed in the race parallel women's growing participation in sports--from the days when they were restricted to calisthenics, croquet and archery--to the present enthusiasm for a wide variety of vigorous sports. The emergence of great twentieth-century athletes from Gertrude Ederle to Billie Jean King are shown. A social history with sports as its focus, the film relates the progress of women in sports to social attitudes and, in recent times, to the impact of the contemporary feminist movement.
Women in Tanzania (28 min., 1987). From sunup to sundown, women in Tanzania, East Africa, bear the burden of running the household, raising the children, and growing the crops. This program looks at the situation of women in Tanzania from the women's perspective.
Women in the Machining Industry (16 min., 1988). This video attempts to recruit untrained and high school age women into the machine trade. It explains what machinists do as well as the rewards and benefits that women have found in the trade.
Women in the Middle Ages (22 min., 1992). How did women live? What did they do? This video shows us their daily lives as administrators, nurses, wives and discusses their religious life. Using excerpts from period texts, accompanied by music and sound effects, the video illustrated the viewpoint of both noble and peasant women who lived during the period 1150 to 1400.
Women in the USSR (18 min., 1980). This video demonstrates the diversity of conditions of women in Russian and Soviet history. It focuses on four main points: that Soviets claim theirs is a society of true equality, that Russians claim tsarina women were terribly oppressed, that Soviet claims about equality are contradicted by evidence in their society, and that tsarina Russia did allow for some diverse roles for women.
Women in World Area Studies Series (Nine part, 14-54 min., 1980-86). The nine parts focus on women in Africa, Ancient Greece, and Rome, China, India, Japan, Medieval/Renaissance Europe, Latin America, and in the Middle East.
Women Like Us (49 min., 1989). Several older British lesbians relate their experiences growing up as young gay women in the years prior to the gay liberation movement. The women talk about work, love, aging, and social acceptance.
Women Loving Women (Slides, 25 min., 1980). This two-tray slide/audio cassette program was produced to point out some of the misconceptions about lesbians and some of the ways in which lesbians suffer psychologically, politically, socially, and economically because of those misconceptions.
Women Negotiate (30 min., 1989). The video is accompanied by "Her Place at the Table," a curriculum module on gender and negotiation, developed by Deborah M. Kolb. This is a consideration of gender issues in negotiation. Martha Crowninshield, venture capitalist; Catherine Donaher, real estate developer; and Alice Flynn, labor union leader, discuss their experiences, perspectives, and approaches to negotiation, focusing on their gender as a factor in conducting negotiations.
The Women of Giriloyu (20 min., 1985). This work looks at the life of a woman who has created her own batik business. Her success has made it possible for her granddaughter's dream to be a doctor more real. Governments are beginning to take note of these rising expectations--one achievement of the UN Decade for Women.
The Women of Hull House (25 min., 1992). This documentary video is created from historical photographs. It documents the contributions of Jane Addams and other Hull House women to the history of social welfare, education, reform, women's rights, sociology, labor relations, international peace, and other areas of U.S. life.
Women of Ideas (67 min., 1986). Dale Spender, Joanna Russ, and Susan Koppelman discuss some of the issues and situations (including separatism and sexism) that engage women. The video was filmed at the National Women's Studies Association annual meeting in Seattle in 1988 and includes a discussion of Spender's Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them.
The Women of Summer: An Unknown Chapter of American Social History (57 min., 1985). This wonderful video tells the story of Bryn Mawr's adventurous summer school for women workers, the controversial educational experiment held between 1921 and 1938. It includes interviews with some of the participants at a fifty-year reunion celebration as they talk passionately about their lives in factories, mills, and unions and what their educations did for them. Women Seen on Television (11 min., 1991). This production blends narration, clips of broadcast footage (advertising and program content), and rock music into a fast-paced critical look at television's stereotyped view of women.
Women under Siege (26 min., 1982). Rashadiyah, Lebanon, is six miles from Israel. In 1964, Palestinians transformed this then-peaceful agrarian village overnight into a primary target for repeated Israeli military attacks. The video introduces six women who play crucial roles in this besieged Palestinian community. As teachers, organizers, laborers, and sometimes as fighters, the women of Rashadiyah provided the foundation for their people's ongoing revolution. In June 1982, shortly after the completion of this film, heavy Israeli bombing reduced the town to rubble, forcing its residents to flee again.
Women Who Made the Movies (55 min., 1992). This video traces the careers and films of such pioneer women film makers as Alice Guy Blanche, the first person to make a film with a plot. Also discussed are Ruth Ann Baldwin, Ida Lupino, Leni Riefenstahl, Dorothy Davenport Reid, and many other women who made lasting contributions to early cinema.
Women's Stories of the Holocaust (18 min., 1995 ). This powerful documentary that relates the stories of three women Holocaust survivors utilizes pictures, music, and interviews. It focuses on the individual strengths employed by the women who endured atrocities and yet still acquired a positive outlook on life.
Working Girls (93 min., 1987). This is a provocative dramatic (and often humorous) treatment of the experience of women paid to guarantee sexual satisfaction as told from a woman's perspective. Straightforward and honest, the movie, the first by film maker Lizzie Borden, treats prostitutes as complicated people with feelings, concerns, goals, and dreams.
The Workplace Hustle (30 min., 1980). Examining sexual harassment on the job, this program features Lyn Farley, author of Sexual Shakedown, who traces the legal battle women have waged to secure dignity and equality in the workplace. The video points out the steep price employers pay in lost working hours, staff turnover, and lawsuits and suggests specific steps women should take if they become victims of sexual harassment. It evaluates the emotional and social forces underlying the problem, giving women and men a chance to talk candidly about their attitudes toward sexuality and sexual equality.
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You Have Struck A Rock (28 min., 1981). This is the moving story of black women in South Africa who suffered through oppression of race, class, and sex during the 1950s. Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Josephs, and others tell how women by the thousands, in a massive show of civil disobedience, prevented the regime from extending the hated pass system to women for almost a decade. Their lives are an inspiring tribute to the spirit and perseverance of South African women.
You May Call Her Madame Secretary (57 min., 1987). Frances Perkins, the first woman to hold a high public office in the nation, is almost unknown today. Perkins was a leading social reformer, a driving force behind protective laws on which our lives depend and an inspiring figure in U.S. and women's history. This video traces the rise of social conscience in this country: from the outrage that followed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 to the legislation of the New Deal.
"You Would If You Loved Me": Making Decisions about Sex (60 min., 1989). Through realistic scenarios and insightful narration, this program sorts through the confusion many students may have about sex and gives realistic reasons to say no or wait.
Your Right to Fight (36 min., 1987). One out of three female students and one out of four male students are victims of sexual harassment on campus. Psychologist Carol Waterman and a panel of students discuss sexual harassment which often occurs in educational institutions. Scenes of sexual harassment make this an effective method of learning about existing myths and options available to victims.
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