| Video Title |
Call Number |
Summary
(taken from the catalog record) |
|
Adelante, Mujeres!
|
E184.M5 A645 1992
|
Focuses on the
history of Mexican-American/Chicana women. The major themes,
organizations and personalities are introduced chronologically in a
tribute to the strengths and resilience of women at the center of their
families, as activists in their communities and as contributors to
American history. Film includes hundreds of previously unpublished
photos gleaned from archives and private collections. |
|
Ah Kam
= A Jin / Golden Harvest Entertainment Co. Ltd. presents. South
San Francisco, Calif. : Tai Seng Video Marketing, 1996. |
PN1997.A23
A3955
(2 parts) |
A "behind the
scenes" viewpoint on the trials and tribulation of a Hong Kong stunt
woman. |
|
And We Knew How to Dance- 56 min.,
National Film Board of Canada, 1993. |
D639.W7 A54 1993 |
Twelve Canadian women recall their entry
into what had formerly been the "man's world" of munitions factories and
farm labour during the manpower shortages of World War I. The video
suggests that the 40,000 women who went to work, with no daycare or
special accommodations, helped to lead the way to such momentous
post-war social changes as voting rights and expanded employment
opportunities. |
|
Beauty in the Bricks
- 29 min. |
E185.86 .B376 1981
|
Documentary of black teenage girls in Dallas, TX
determined to succeed despite poverty and violence. |
|
Bell Hooks- 66 min., Media Education
Foundation, 1997. |
PE1127.P6 H66 1997
|
Lecture by Bell Hooks in which she makes a
compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural
criticism. |
|
Beyond Killing Us Softly: the impact of
media images on girls- 34 nun., Cambridge Documentary
Films. |
HF5822 .K552 2000 |
A documentary about the fight against toxic
and degrading messages to women and girls that dominate the media.
The film presents the leading authorities in the fields of psychology of
women and girls, eating disorders, gender studies, violence against
women, and media literacy- and focuses on their ideas on practical
solutions and the best tactics for reclaiming our culture. |
| This Black Soil |
HC107 .V83 T55 2004 |
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, Virginia, a small and
severely improverished rural African-American community to overcome the
state of Virginia's plans for building a prison in their backyard, and
under the leadership of visionary women, building a new community from
the grounds up. |
|
Burning Times- 58 min., National Film
Board of Canada, 1990. |
BL325.M6 W652 1993
|
Discusses
legends and misconceptions regarding the term "witch". Examines women's
roles in goddess-based religions and how the Christian church attacked
them as witches during the Middle Ages. Supports the belief that
anti-witch hysteria persists today in modern society's cultural
acceptance of violence against women.. |
|
Conjure Women-85 min., Women Make
Movies, 1995. |
N6538.N5 C66 1995 |
Afro-American women artists
(choreographer/dancer Anita Gonzalez, performance artist Robbie
McCauley, photographer Carrie Mae Weems and musician Cassandra Wilson)
discuss their philosophy of art. Video includes excerpts from artists'
works. |
|
The Cult of the Beautiful Body:
Observations from the Plane of Body Consiousness-30 min.,
Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1999.
|
BF697.5.B63 C85 1999 |
This program examines the cult of the body
in Western societies and how it has reduced today's courtship ritual to
a one-dimensional experience based primarily on physical attraction.
|
|
Dancing
on Little Wires : Featuring Guitarists Lily Afshar, Patricia Dixon,
Hilary Field [and] Antigoni Goni
/ L. A. Day Productions. Portland, OR : Letting Go
Foundation, c1998.
|
Video LETTING GO
Dancing (Music Library) |
Through
interviews and concert footage each musician (4 women) presents a unique
viewpoint on classical guitar. |
|
Dear Lisa: a Letter to my Sister-New
York, NY : New Day Films, c1990.
|
HQ1206
.D35 1990 |
Thirteen women describe incidents from their
lives revealing their socialization as women and the roles society
expects women to play. |
|
Defending Our Lives- Cambridge
Documentary Films, Inc., 1999. |
HV6626 .D44 1999
|
Shows the magnitude and severity of domestic
violence in this country. This video features four women imprisoned for
killing their
batterers and their terrifying personal testimonies. Each of these women
tells her own horrific tale of beatings, rape and torture at the
hands of her husband or boyfriend. |
|
Dialogues With Madwomen- by Allie
Light, 90 min., Dist. by Women Make Movies. |
RC451.4.W6 D5 1993
|
(Producer)
Features seven women--including the filmmaker--describing their
experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities,
schizophrenia, euphoria, and recovery. Candid interviews are combined
with dramatic reenactments and visualizations of each women's history,
emotions, and dreams--the private symbols of madness and sanity. The
social dimensions of women and mental illness are revealed in testimony
about sexual assault, incest, racism and homophobia, the abuses of the
medical establishment, family, and church. |
|
Dreamworlds 2 : Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video/
written, edited & narrated by Sut Jhally. Northampton, MA :
Media Education Foundation, c1995.
|
PN1992.8.M87 D77
1995 |
The author
suggests that the image of women in music videos reflects a male
adolescent dreamworld. In this world, all women are nymphomaniacs who
constantly invite sex with any available male. The author examines the
factors which produce this image and questions the effect which many
hours of viewing this dreamworld might have on male behavior in the real
world. Consists primarily of narration over clips from rock videos. |
| During the War Women Went to Work |
D810.W7 D87 2007 |
Personal recollections of life during World War II from women of Washington
State who were involved in all aspects of the war effort. Bonus materials
include recollections of women from overseas during the war, some of whom were
children at the time, a slide show of personal photographs from the women
interviewed, and a 1943 newsreel. |
|
Evelyn
Fox Keller : Science and Gender
/ WNET/New York, WTTW/Chicago, WTVS/Detroit ; Public Affairs Television
; produced by Leslie Clark. Princeton, NJ : Films for the
Humanities, Inc., c1994. |
Q130 .S35 1994 |
E.F. Keller, a
theoretical physicist in the Dept. of Rhetoric at the University of
California at Berkeley, discusses how gender plays a significant role in
the language that scientists use to describe their work. |
|
The Famine Within- Direct Cinema
Limited, 1990. |
RC552.E18 F375 1990
|
Discusses the
current obsession with body image in North American women, and the
influence of the mass media upon ideas about weight control.
Psychologists describe the ideal of women in the United States, how
women are oppressed by this ideal, and the psychological problems this
ideal creates. |
|
Full Circle-57 min., National Film
Board of Canada, 1993. |
BL325.M6 W653 1993 |
Discusses environmental issues in relation
to women's spirituality. |
|
Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women
Cartoonists- 46 min., New Day Films, 1991. |
NC1426 .F85 1991 |
Brief history of women cartoonists and a
close look at such comic strips as Brenda Star, Cathy, Sylvia, and Ernie Pook's comeek.
|
|
Fury For the Sound: The Women at
Clayoquot-86 min., TellTale Productions, 1997. |
GE160.C2 F8 1997 |
Reveals the important role of women in
establishing grassroots social movements like the one to protest
clearcut logging in Clayoquot Sound on Canada's West Coast. Depicts
women of all ages fighting to protect the Sound, one of the largest
remaining tracts of untouched Canadian rain forest. |
|
Gender,
the enduring paradox produced
and directed by Sandra Wentworth Bradley ; written by Rodrick Phillips ;
a co-production of WETA-TV and the Smithsonian Institution in
association with Wentworth Films, Inc. Alexandria, VA : PBS
Video, c1991. |
HQ1075
.G467 1991 |
"This program
explores the subject of gender in American society, from the formation
of childhood gender roles to socially-constructed notions of masculinity
and femininity, exploring the validity of popular ideas about men and
women and illustrating the paradox and contradictions of
gender."--container. |
|
Girl talk / Davis/Denny Productions. New
York : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1992. |
HQ798
.G565 1992 |
Documents the
lives of three runaway girls, all of whom had traumatic childhoods. The
three girls are passionate, hard-boiled, fragile and alone. |
|
Goddess Remembered- 55 min., Direct
Cinema, 1990. |
BL325.M6 W651 1990 |
Describes and
discusses early goddess-worshiping cultures and the current women's
spirituality movement. |
|
Guerrillas in Our Midst / LD5
Films ; director, Amy Harrison ; writers, Margaret Herbig, Ron Hunnings.
New York : Women Make Movies, 1992. |
N72.F45
G84 1992 |
Gallery owners
comment on the actions of a group of anonymous women artists who call
themselves the Guerrilla Girls. Also interviewed are members of the
Guerilla Girls, who, dressed in gorilla masks, work to promote greater
representation of women and minority artists in art exhibitions. |
|
Hearts and Hands- 63 min., Ferraro
Films, 1987. |
HQ1419 .H43 1988 |
Takes a look at
the role played by women and their textiles in such movements and events
of the nineteenth century as industrialization, abolition of slavery,
women's rights, the Civil War, westward expansion, temperance, and
suffrage. |
|
Her Day in Court: Women and Justice in
Washington State-28 min., American Motion Pictures, 1988. |
KFW91.W6 H46 1988 |
Currently, 11% of the judges in Washington
State are women. This program interviews some of the first women lawyers
and judges in the state, discussing the struggle and rise of women in
the judiciary. |
|
Here's to the Women-14 min.,
Washington Women's Heritage Project, 1982. |
HQ1438.W2 W37 1982 |
|
|
Hispanics: The Changing Role of Women-
44 min., Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. |
E184.S75 H5763 1998 |
In this program,
several prominent Latina women, including author Isabel Allende and
actress Jennifer Lopez, discuss their changing role within the context
of Hispanic family values, male machismo, and the traditional role of
females as the center of family and community life. Also examines the
issue from the male perspective. |
|
Home from the Eastern Sea-Seattle, WA : Paper Crane
Productions in association with KCTS 9, c1989.
|
F900.O6
H65 1989 |
Documentary Film. Chinese Americans -- Japanese
Americans -- Filipino Americans -- Post war era. |
|
Hozho of native women
/ a video by Beverly R. Singer ; Rosenda Reins Productions ;
producer/director, Beverly R. Singer. New York, N.Y. :
Distributed by Women Make Movies, c1997.
|
E98.S7
.H694 1997 |
Presents
excerpts from a conference on Native American women's health issues.
Interviews with several native women concerning their personal life
stories with regards to their society, cultural assimilation problems,
and identity. |
|
Intimacy. Buffalo, NY : Medical Media Associates, Inc.,
c2001.
|
RC280.B8
I56 2001 |
Breast cancer
survivors and some of their spouses discuss the importance of the issues
of intimacy and self-image in the healing process. |
|
Jane : an abortion
service / produced and directed by Kate Kirtz and Nell
Lundy. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1996.
|
HQ767.5.U5 J35
1996 |
Profiles the
abortion service which operated in Chicago during the late 1960s and
early 1970s, when abortion was illegal; consists primarily of interviews
with many of the women who worked with the service. |
|
Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of
Women- 29 min., Cambridge Documentary Films,
1979.
|
HF5822 .K55 1978 |
A fascinating study of the psychological and
sexual themes that pervade today's advertising for products.
Specifically explores the image of women presented by modern
advertising. |
|
Killing Us Softly 3:
Advertising's Image of Women- 34 min., Media Educations Foundation,
2000.
|
HF5822 .K55 2000
|
This sequel to
Killing us softly (1979) and Still Killing us softly (1987), which were
Cambridge Documentary Films productions, discusses the manner in which
women continue to be portrayed by advertising. |
|
The Life and Times of Rosie
the Riveter, -produced
and directed by Connie Field.
Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd., [c1999]
|
D810.W7 L5 1999
|
Five women reminisce about their jobs and
working conditions during World War II. |
|
Looks! : How They Affect
Your Life /
produced by Gannett Broadcasting Group. Deerfield, IL : MTI
Teleprograms, Inc., c1984. |
HM132 .L65 1984 |
Psychological
studies and psychologists give a new awareness of the role of beauty in
our social and personal lives. Shows various aspects of beauty in our
culture, the results of having and not having beauty, illustrates the
psychological impact of fulfilling and not fulfilling society's
standards of beauty, dramatizes the importance of an awareness of the
power of beauty to shape our feelings about ourselves and the feelings
of others about us. |
| Love & Diane |
HV5833.N45 L688 2002 |
In the 1980s, the crack epidemic in American inner cities left a
generation of parents addicted and their children in a cycle of foster
care and group homes. This film documents one New York City family's
struggle to become a family again ten years after their initial
separation. Focuses on Diane, a former addict, and her daughter, Love,
who is HIV positive and fighting for custody of her newborn son. |
|
MAA
Invited Address : Wavelets Making Waves in Mathematics and
Engineering / Ingrid
Daubechies. Providence, RI : American Mathematical
Society, c1993. |
QA403.3 .D383 1993 |
Presents an
introductory lecture on wavelets and an interview with Ingrid Daubechies,
a leading expert in wavelets. |
|
Mary
Catherine Bateson / a production of Public Affairs Television,
Inc. ; produced and directed by Betsy McCarthy.
Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1989, c1988. |
GN21.B385 M37 1989 |
Bill Moyers
interviews anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, who notes that modern
society is organized such that winning strategies are the short term
ones, with emphasis on increasing specialization, and that women,
traditionally assigned multiple roles, have retained the capacity to be
generalists and may be able to provide long term solutions that the
continuity of society demands. |
|
Mary
Wollstonecraft [Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington,
1984] |
HQ1412 .E531 1984 |
Giovanni
Costigan lectures on the life, writings, and political activities of
Mary Wollstonecraft |
|
My America...Or Honk if You Love Buddha-Produced
in association with National Asian American Telecomunications
Association and Independent Television Service, [1997?]. |
E184.O6 M9 1997 |
In her warm and funny
odyssey across the
U.S., Renee Tajima-Peña records the voices and personalities of Asian
Americans from Chinatown, New York to a debutante ball in Anaheim,
California. |
|
Nevelson in Process
/ directed by Susan Fanshel and Jill Godmilow ; a
production of WNET/13. |
NB237.N43
N48 1977 |
Louise Nevelson
is seen creating two pieces of sculpture as she discusses her feelings
for her art and the creative process. |
|
Newswomen : a Phil
Donahue program / directed by David L. McGrail. Princeton, N.J.
: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c1988. |
PN4784.W7 N487 1988 |
Leading
newswomen from the three major networks join Phil Donahue on his talk
show to discuss the part being a woman plays in their professional
careers. Jane Pauley, Maria Shriver, Leslie Stahl, Connie Chung, Joan
Lunden, Rita Flynn, and Mary Alice Williams talk about their jobs and
air the complaints and problems they have as women professionals. |
|
No time
for tears
/ a West End
Films production ; produced with the assistance of Women Make Movies,
Inc. ; director, Elizabeth Bouiss ; producer, Mitch Wood.
[New York, N.Y.?] : West End Films, Inc. ; [Chicago, Ill. : Distributed
by Facets Multimedia], c1993. |
DS559.8.W6 N6 1993 |
Over ten
thousand women served in Vietnam as helicopter pilots, doctors,
intelligence officers, Red Cross workers, and most often as nurses. In
this documentary, seven women veterans recall their time in Vietnam.
Their compelling stories of courage and of caring will be especially
powerful for students of nursing, women's issues, history, and
psychology, as well as being a tool for counseling women veterans. |
|
Out of
the Past / a Unapix
Films and Zeitgeist release ; Inverted Pictures presents a Jeff Dupre
film ; executive producer, Andrew Tobias ; directed and produced by Jeff
Dupre ; written by Michelle Ferrari. New York, N.Y. : A-Pix
Entertainment, Inc. 1998. |
CHIL 306.76 O94 1998
video + guide |
Told through the
eyes of 17-year-old Kelli Peterson, this film features her
history-making experience of forming the Gay Straight Alliance at her
Salt Lake City, Utah high school and reviews the struggle for gay and
lesbian rights in the United States that continues today. |
|
The Pankhursts Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington, 1984] |
HQ1412 .E536 1984 |
Giovanni Costigan lectures on Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters and their
struggle for women's rights in England. |
|
Picturing Oriental Girls: A [Re]
Educational Videotape-San Francisco, CA : Distributed by: NAATA,
National Asian American Telecommunications Association, 1992. |
PN1995.9.A78 P43 1992 |
Clips from over 25 Hollywood films and
television programs explicate the orientalism and exoticism prevalent in
media images of Asian American women. |
|
Place of Rage, A.-New York, NY :
Women Make Movies, 1991. |
E185.61 .P599 1991 |
Prominent black women comment upon
experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its
effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope
will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights
movement in the 1960's. |
| The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend |
NK9112 .Q526 2004 |
Records and relates the lives of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who
for more than 150 years have made quilts reflecting their history and
daily lives. Having worked in isolation for generations and continuing
to inhabit the remote plantation land their parents once slaved, they
have received unexpected attention from the artistic world. |
Rape is Not an Option-producer, Jan
L. Warner ; director, Gary M. Atkins.
Columbia, SC : Life Management, c1992. |
HV6558 .R36 1992
|
An informational program designed to empower
women to safeguard themselves against sexual assault. Includes
interviews with
attorneys and rape counselors, and demonstrations of self-protective
techniques. |
|
Reclaiming the
Body : Feminist Art
in America
/ Michael Blackwood
Productions in association with Saarlandischer Rundfunk ; produced and
directed by Michael Blackwood. |
N72.F45 R43 1995 |
"Loosely based on the two-part BAD GIRLS
exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan,
"Reclaiming the body" goes beyond the scope of the exhibition to include
other significant contributors to the history of feminist art. The film
spans three generations of artists from Louise Bourgeois to Janine
Antoni, to give an overview of feminist art from the 1960s to the
present."--Catalog. |
|
Reviving
Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
/ a Media Education Foundation Production. |
CHIL
305.23 R454 1998
Video
|
Mary Pipher
discusses the challenges facing today's teenagers, especially girls, as
well as the role of media and popular culture in shaping their
identities. |
|
A Room
of One's Own
/ by
Virginia Woolf ; produced by Bill Shepherd ; adapted and directed by
Patrick Garland ; Oyster Television Film Theatre Ltd. production for
Thames TV PLC. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, 1996. |
PN471
.W623 1996 |
Eileen Atkins'
one-woman stage performance recreates Virginia Woolf's talk to the women
of Girton College, Cambridge. A call to women to declare their
independence, talent and freedom to write, think, love and labor, and to
control their own destinies, yet realize necessary communion on all
levels between men and women. |
| Running in High Heels |
HQ1236.5 .U6 R865 2005 |
"Follows the political campaign of Emily [Csendes], an engaging but
inexperienced 29 year-old woman, as it posits the question: Should
women vote for women, regardless of politics? Interwoven with Emily's
story are a chorus of powerful women from the left and right of
American politics, from comically conservative old-timer Phyllis
Schlafly to Rosalind Wiseman, whose books begat the movie 'Mean girls'"
-- Container. |
|
Les
Seins dans la Tête / L'Office national du film du Canada présente un film de Mireille
Dansereau ; produit par Josée Beaudet. Montréal : Office
national du film du Canada, c1994. |
HQ1233
.S45 1994 |
Documentary
explores the mystique of the female breast. |
Shortchanging
Girls, Shortchanging
America - Podesta Associates, Inc.
Washington, D.C. : American Association of University Women, 1991. |
LC1752 .S56 1991
|
A video presentation included in the agenda
of the AAUW Educational Equity Roundtable held January 9, 1991, in
Washington, DC;
stresses promotion of self-esteem in girl students and encouragement in
math and science studies. |
|
Sisterhood : Hyping the Female Market
/ Paper Tiger TV-West ; produced by Niki Cousino ... [et al.].
New York, NY : Paper Tiger Television, 1993. |
HF5822 .S577 1993 |
This video takes
a critical and humorous stab at the recent plethora of "pro-feminist"
advertising. |
|
Skin deep
/ an Iris Films production ; producer, director, Frances Reid ; writers,
Sharon Wood, Frances Reid. Berkeley, CA : Iris Films ; [San
Francisco, CA : Distributed by] California Newsreel, c1995. |
HT1521 .S538 1995 |
A diverse group of college students reveal
their honest feelings and attitudes about race and racism. Students are
interviewed alone, and then discuss the issues in a group setting. |
|
Slaying the Dragon-
San
Francisco, CA : Cross Current Media : NAATA, c1988. |
PN1995.9.A7823 S6 1988 |
Describes and discusses Asians and
Asian-Americans as depicted in American Media productions, including
films, television programs, commercials, newsreels and news broadcasts,
paying particular attention to Asian women. Includes interviews with
Asian historians, sociologists, actors & actresses and broadcasters. |
|
Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession
with Thin-advertising and the obsession with thinness / written &
presented by Jean Kilbourne. Northampton, MA : Media Education
Foundation, c1995. |
BF697.5.B63 S64 1995
|
Illustrated lecture which explores the manner
in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness.
Discusses the
impact this portrayal has on the self images of women and girls. |
|
The Smell of Burning Ants
/ Locomotion Films ; [produced, written and directed by Jay Rosenblatt].
Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. : Jay Rosenblatt Film Library [distributor]
c1994. |
HQ783 .S55 1994
Includes a guide. |
The film raises
gender issues and provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can
deprive boys of wholeness. Through the formative events of a boy's life,
we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally
disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. Illustrates how
boys are socialized by fear, power and shame. |
|
Step
by step
: Building a Feminist Movement
/ Wisconsin Public Television. |
HQ1410 .S74 1998 |
Traces the gradual emergence of contemporary
feminism through the life stories of eight women who helped make it
happen from 1941 to 1977. |
Still Killing Us Softly :
Advertising's Image of Women /
a film by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary Films ; producer &
director, Margaret Lazarus. Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge
Documentary Films, c1987. |
HF5822 .S74 1987
2 copies |
Jean Kilbourne
delivers a lecture at Harvard University on the portrayal of women in
advertising and the effects it has on women and their self-image. |
|
Three women artists
:
Anna Sokolow, Alice Neel, Muriel Rukhauser [i.e. Rukeyser] / a film by
Lucille Rhodes, Margaret Murphy. West Long Branch, N.J. :
[distributed by] Kultur, [1998] |
N6512 .T48 1998 |
Discribes the careers and lives of three
American women artists. Follow the outstanding choreographer of the
twentieth century, Anna Sokolow, and famous figure painter Alice Neel,
along with poet Muriel Rukeyser as they explain their interesting, yet
diverse careers as artists. |
|
Toni Morrison
/ SSR-RTSI Swiss Television production
; producer & director, Matteo Bellinelli ; writer, Barbara Christian.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1992. |
PS3563.O8749 Z89 1992 |
Morrison reads
from her two novels, Beloved [and] Jazz and discusses her views of the
contributions made to American literature by the experiences of African
Americans. |
|
Union Maids-Wayne, N.J. : New Day Films, [1986?]. |
HD6079.2.U52 C489 |
Presents an adaptation of the book entitled
Rank and file by Alice Lynd, about the American labor movement in the
1930's. Relates the personal experiences of three militant women who
tried to organize laborers in Chicago in this period. |
| V-Day. Until the Violence Stops |
HV6250.4.W65
V3 2005 |
Chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show 'The Vagina Monologues' grew
into V-Day, an international grassroots movement dedicated to stopping violence
against women and girls. Has been widely recognized as "a celebration of women's
sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" and praised as "frank, humorous
and moving." |
|
Video SEWA: A People's Alternative-New York, NY : Martha Stuart
Communications, Inc., 1990. |
HD6072.6.I4
V5 1990 |
SEWA's need for video communication resulted
in a video production workshop to train SEWA members in the use of video
technology. The film shows how they overcame the barriers of illiteracy
and sexism to produce programs about their different cooperatives. |
|
Votes for Women?! The 1913 U.S. Senate Testimony-Madison, WI :
Her Own Words, c1990. |
JK1896 .V68 1990 |
"... a 17-minute videotape including verbatim
testimony from the 1913 U.S. Senate hearings, along with pro- and
anti-suffrage buttons, banners, and cartoons from the time."--program
guide. |
|
The War on Boys
/ produced by Whidbey Films, Inc. ; written by Lionel Chetwynd.
Seattle : Whidbey Films ; [Alexandria, Va.] :
distributed by PBS Home Video, c1999. |
HQ775 .W35 1999 |
Fred Barnes
investigates the changed concept of how boys should be raised and the
heavy price a generation of young men may pay as a result. |
|
What a
Girl Wants / a film by Matthew
Buzzell, Elizabeth Massie, Jacob Bricca ; produced by Elizabeth Massie ;
CHC Productions. Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation,
c2000. |
HQ798 .W46 2000 |
Eleven girls
ages 8 to 16 and two classrooms of middle and high school students
discuss their views on mass media and how it impacts their lives. |
|
Wild Women Don't Have the
Blues-San
Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1989. |
Video CALIFORNIA
NEWSREEL WILD
WOMEN
(Music Library) |
Koko Taylor provides commentary on historic
filmed performances and recordings of such pioneering blueswomen as
Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter, Ida Cox, and
others. |
|
With
Babies and Banners : Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
/ a film made by the Women's Labor History Film Project ;
director/producer, Lorraine Gray ; producer/historian, Lyn Goldfarb.
New York, N.Y. : New Day Films, [1990?] |
HD5325.A82 1936-1937 W575 1990 |
Describes the
role of women in the General Motors sit-down strike of 1936-1937,
especially the formation, success, and subsequent disbanding of the
Women's Emergency Brigade. Includes interviews with several Brigade
members as they met on the fortieth anniversary of the strike. Their
reminiscences make clear the part they played in strengthening the
United Auto Workers Union and the events discussed are illustrated with
newsreel sequences of the actual events. |
| Woman, Who is Me? |
HQ1206 .W858 2005 |
An animated film which explores how men and women see each other and
themselves. Designed to stimulate discussion about sexual stereotyping. |
|
Women and History
/ producer/director, Arthur Bloch. Berkeley, CA : Thinking
Allowed Productions, c1994 |
HQ1121 .W876 1994 |
Jeffrey Mishlove and Gerda Lerner talk about
her books, The creation of patriarchy, and The creation of feminist
consciousness. Part 1 explores the values of patriarchy and patriarchal
society as created by human beings in the millenia before the Christian
era. Part 2 examines the ways women found to transcend the patriarchal
doctrine of the subordination of women, before the 20th century. |
|
Women in
Business : Risks, Rewards & Secrets of Running Your Own Company
/ Inc. Magazine. Irvine, CA : Lorimar Home Video, c1987. |
HD6054.3 .W65 1987 |
Addresses 12
critical issues that women in business
face such as obtaining financing, delegating, building credibility and
more. |
|
Women in
the 40's and 50's
/
director, Ann Pearson ; producers, Kathleen Shannon, Yuki Yoshida
[Canada] : National Film Board of Canada, 1992 |
HQ1457 .W65 1992 |
A video
compilation of films made about women during the 1940s and 1950s
illustrating changing perceptions of working women in Canadian society. |
|
Women of Hope: Latin Abriendo Camino: 12
Ground Breaking Latina Women-Princeton, NJ : Films for the
Humanities [distributor], c1996. |
E184.S75 W65 1996 |
Uses interviews, news and archival film,
music and literature to show prominent Hispanic American women (Latinas)
who made a difference. |
|
Women of Hull-House, The.-written &
produced by Mary Ann Johnson. [Chicago, Ill.] : Jane Addams' Hull-House
Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago, c1992. |
HV28.A35 W65 1992
|
Historical photographs are used to tell the
story of Hull House, the settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane
Addams and Ellen Starr. The contributions of Addams and other Hull House
women in the fields of social welfare, women's rights, labor relations,
education and world peace are recounted. |
|
Women of Vision : 18 Histories in
Feminist film and video / by
Alexandra Juhasz. [New York, NY] : Cinema Guild, c1999. |
PN1995.9.W6 W67 1998 |
Profiles a variety of women active in
independent-feminist film and video, including production, distribution
and education, whose work expresses a variety of political and esthetic
viewpoints. The three part video begins by profiling 6 women whose
careers began in the Fifties and Sixties, then six women whose work
coincided with the emergence of the women's movement in the Seventies;
and six women whose careers began in the Eighties and Nineties. |
|
A
Word in edgewise / a
W.A.V.E. production ; producer/director/writer, Heather MacLeod.
New York : Women Make Movies, c1986. |
P106 .W67 1986 |
Looks at
how language is often taken for granted by some and used to exploit by
others. |
|
Works by
Women : From the Heart
/
a presented by The Gihon Foundation. West Long Branch,
N.J.: [distributed by] Kultur, [1998?] |
N6512 .W66 1998 |
This film
explores twentieth-century art by women, focusing on nine of the
thirteen artists whose works compose the Gihon art collection: Works by
Women. The artists provide the dialogue, about artistic techniques
employed, family background, philosophy of art, self-criticism, and
success. Artists featured in the film are: Lynda Benglis, Nancy
Chambers, Clyde Connell, Janet Fish, Hermine Ford, Dorothy Hood, Mary
McCleary, Gail Stack and Dee Wolff. |
| Writing about Revolution: A Talk |
E 185.97 .H77 A3 2002 |
Hooks talks about her experiences writing for alternative publishers
and for the mainstream. She reads from some of her work and discusses
what it's like to write about race, gender, and class in a publishing
world where mediocrity reigns in the marketplace. |
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You May Call Her Madame Secretary
- West Tisbury, MA : Vineyard Video Productions, 1987. |
HD8073.P38 Y68 1987 |
Uses photographs, portraits, documents,
political cartoons, newsreel footage, and recent interviews to present
the life of Frances Perkins, who served as Franklin Roosevelt's
secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945. |