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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 Film includes hundreds of previously unpublished photos gleaned from archives and private collections.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.
 

IntimacyBuffalo, 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
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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
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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 
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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
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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.
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.

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