WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES MEDIA MATERIALS
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This film documents an August, 2009 discussion between
Susan Wickund, M.D., and Sunsara Taylor, and aims to
bring scientific and moral clarity to the topic of women’s
right to abortion.
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In 2002, Mukhtaran Mai, a rural Pakistani woman from a
remote part of the Punjab, was gang-raped by order of her
tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s
alleged relationship with a woman from another clan.
Instead of committing suicide or living in shame,
Mukhtaran spoke out, fighting for justice in the Pakistani
courts—making world headlines. Further defying
custom, she started two schools for girls in her village
and a crisis center for abused women.
Looks behind the familiar image of Edna Staebler as a
writer celebrated for her best-selling cookbooks since
Food That Really Schmecks first appeared in 1968. In her
recollections she describes a society that has slowly
broadened its attitudes toward women like her who insist
on making their way in the world as writers.
The film takes us to the Parris Island Marine Recruit
Training Depot in South Carolina, U.S.A., to observe the
rituals that will transform a motley group of 18-year-olds
into soldiers of the United States Marine Corps,
unquestionably the roughest, toughest branch in the U.S.
military. Anybody’s Son Will Do is a gripping study of
what it takes to change ordinary civilians into the staple
of war – soldiers ready to kill, even to die, for their
country.
A vision of man’s heart of darkness revealed through the
madness of the Vietnam War.
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Abortion, Morality, and the
Liberation of Women
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Suzuki
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After the Rape
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An Attentive Life
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Anybody’s Son Will Do
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Apocalypse Now
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Economy is something you need a key for. Either you
already have that key or you have to bang the door down.
From office to forest to kitchen, Manitoba women talk
about the economy.
Anorexia and other eating disorders exert a frightening
degree of control over millions of teenagers, especially
young women. This program represents a powerful
weapon in the battle against eating disorders, pinpointing
their origins in body image and self-esteem issues.
On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe is constantly
confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years.
This video examines how the “good and evil” rhetoric has
taught children to dehumanize the enemy, justify their
killing and treat the suffering of innocent civilians as
necessary sacrifice. The interviews include media
scholars, child psychologists, teachers, educators, and the
children themselves.
Joe’s dad comes to visit, but instead of opening the door
Joe’s mom calls the police. All Joe wants is to see his
dad. All Anne wants is protection from Richard. All
Richard wants is to get his family back. A family crisis
seen through the eyes of a 6 year old boy.
Political comedy
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Banging the Door Down:
Women & the Economy
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Battling Eating Disorders
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Beloved
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Beyond Good & Evil:
Children, Media & Violent
Times
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Blindspot: Some Things
We’d Rather Not See
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Borat
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Bordertown
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(This) Brave Nation
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Breakfast on Pluto
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A powerful story of life on the border between the United
States and Mexico, Bordertown is based on the tragic
account of hundreds of women working in Americanowned factories who have been brutally raped and
murdered in Juarez, a city gripped by fear. The attacks
have been covered up by the local authorities, and still
continue today.
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A boy is abandoned as a baby and left on the doorstep of
a priest. From a very young age, he realizes he is
different from the other boys but steadfastly refuses to
change.
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(The) Business of Being Born
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Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life.
But birth is also big business. Compelled to explore the
subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki
Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the
way American women have babies. The film interlaces
intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political
and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the
current maternity care system. When director Epstein
discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film,
the journey becomes even more personal. Should most
births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every
delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical
emergency?
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Club Native
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(The) Codes of Gender
DVD – 72 minutes
Communalism & Religious
Fundamentalism
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Compañeras
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(The) Company of Wolves
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Filmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawake, her hometown,
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as a lens to probe deeply into the history and
contemporary reality of Aboriginal identity. Following
the stories of four women, she reveals the exclusionary
attitudes that divide the community and many others like
it across Canada.
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late
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sociologist Erving Goffman’s groundbreaking analysis of
advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in
this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized
cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern
of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman’s
central claim that the way the body is displayed in
advertising communicates normative ideas about
masculinity and femininity. The film looks beyond
advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and
beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological
difference or issues of surface objectification and beauty,
taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity and power
relations. With its sustained focus on the fundamental
importance of gender, power, and how our perceptions of
what it means to be a man or a woman get reproduced
and reinforced on the level of culture in our everyday
lives, The Codes of Gender is certain to inspire discussion
and debate across a range of disciplines.
Talks by: Pervez Hoodboy (Pakistan), Tanika Sarkar
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(India), Amargeet Kaur (India), and Anonymous
(Algeria)
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Beware the woods! There, the wise old Granny weaves
her vivid tales of folklore and fantasy. There, witches and
wolves mix with reality in her granddaughter Rosaleen’s
adolescent dreams, stirred by passion and foretelling the
fate of all young girls who stray from the forest path.
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Consuming Women
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(The) Corporate Theft of
Water
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(The) Corporation
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Cronos
DVD – 92 minutes
Cry Freetown
VHS – 27 minutes
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In March 2005, the Women’s Studies Program at the
University of British Columbia presented Consuming
Women – an undergraduate conference, at the Asian
Studies Centre on the UBC campus. The conference
brought together undergraduate students across British
Columbia from science, social science, humanities, fine
arts, and beyond in an informal, friendly, and supportive
atmosphere where they presented their work, met others
in related areas, debated different points of view, and
engaged in conversations relating to women’s studies.
DVD contains highlights from the conference including
excerpts from the 3 keynote speakers, student
presentations and interviews.
A Talk by Maude Barlow
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Case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal
behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several
corporate and anti-corporate dramas. Each illuminates an
aspect of the corporation’s complex character. Featuring
40 interviews including 7 CEOs, 3 VPs, 2
whistleblowers, a broker, a spy, and the FBI’s top
consultant on psychopaths.
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist
tries to perfect an invention that would provide him with
the key to eternal live.
Award-winning cameraman returns to Sierra Leone to
expose the horror of his country’s civil war that he risked
his life to document. This film is a unique and harrowing
account of the innocent victims of a civil war largely
ignored by the West.
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(The) Date Rape Backlash
Susan Faludi and Katha Politt trace the origins of the
Media & the Denial of Rape – backlash to opinion pieces which appeared in rightDVD - 57 minutes
wing/conservative journals as a response to the
mainstream media’s “discovery” of date rape; and they
explain how the “rape-type” idea, initially put forth by
conservative makes, was catalyzed into mainstream
media “controversy” when that same idea was mimicked
by a young woman named Katie Roiphe (The Morning
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December 6 : Canada’s
The December 6th slideshow begins on December 6th,
National Day of
1989, when 14 women were murdered at L’Ecole
Remembrance and Action on Polytechnique of the University of Montreal. The
Violence Against Women
devastation, loss and political awakening caused by their
DVD – time length unknown assassinations are revealed in epitaphs written by
members of their families. From there we follow the
activism of a Vancouver community under siege,
struggling to draw attention to the high number of women
murdered and missing on the Downtown Eastside. Here
we witness the birth of the anti-murder campaign
organized by Indigenous women; the February 14th
Women’s Memorial March.
Deconstructing Supper
Deconstructing Supper is an eye-opening journey into the
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billion dollar battle to control global food production.
Starting with a gourmet meal in his five-star restaurant,
Chef John Bishop travels the world, on a personal quest
to find out what our food choices are today. From North
America to Great Britain to India and back, Bishop meets
scientists and activists with opposing views on genetic
engineering, journalists and farmers who have
experienced the might of giant biotech corporations and
organic farmers in India who are fighting to preserve the
natural biodiversity of crops.
Designer Babies:
Imagine a future in which physical strength and
The Dangers of Corporate
assertiveness are the top-selling items on “baby menus.”
Genetics
This program explores that possibility and other
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frightening implications of market-driven genetic
engineering. Showing how the government-funded
Human Genome Project has become highly lucrative for
pharmaceutical companies, the video examines cases of
exploitative gene harvesting in Iceland and Peru, where
isolated ethnic populations contain commercially
valuable DNA. Interviews with prominent scientists and
activists highlight the dangers of patenting genomic data
and an absence of public discourse about artificial gene
selection.
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(The) Devils
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Diagnosing Difference
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DNA - Pandora’s Box
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DNA: Secret of Photo 51
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Dollhouse (Season One)
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This version of Ken Russell’s masterpiece restores all of
the cut footage that was removed when the film was
released including the never before seen “Rape of Christ”
sequence. Includes 70 minutes of Extra Features Original
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Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek
to take control of pre-rennaisance France, but need to
destroy Father Grandier – the priest who runs the fortified
town that prevents them from exerting total control. So
they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in
control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior
of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witchhunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest,
ready for the big trial
A documentary film featuring thirteen transgender and
genderqueer scholars, artists & activists discussing the
impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder
diagnosis on their lives and communities.
When it comes to DNA science, nobody has a better track
record than Jim Watson; what makes him controversial,
however, is his vision of its future. This program looks
inside the Pandora’s box of genetic manipulation with the
man who opened it. Watson serves as guide, exploring
some of the current and proposed ways scientists are
improving humankind. He also addresses some of his
critics, including a family with a son who has Down
syndrome, and Dr. Kay Jamison, a world expert on
bipolar disorder and a bipolar patient herself.
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick
published their groundbreaking discovery of the double
helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing
on our genes and the “secret of life”. But their crucial
breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of
another biologist—Rosalind Franklin. She would never
know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of
her data without her permission. This was an X-ray
image, “Photo 51” that proved to be a vital clue in their
decoding of the double helix. Hear the inside story and
new evidence of just how close Franklin came to making
the vital double helix discovery herself.
An illegal underground organization provides its elite
clientele with programmable human beings.
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Drug Deals: The Brave New
World of Prescription Drugs
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While the prescription drug industry strives to develop
life-saving medicines, it is also a lucrative business with
billions of revenue at stake. This gripping documentary
asks whether corporate pressure is causing new drugs to
be released before they are adequately tested. Probing
each phase of clinical research, approvals, safety
monitoring and marketing, Drug Deals investigates the
potentially far-reaching influence of drug companies.
Featuring interviews with researchers, doctors,
government regulators and a grieving family.
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(The) Emperor’s New
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reality of life before, during, and after the signing of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It
takes an incisive look at the profound effects that
economic agreements between big business and
government can have on human lives, including increased
cuts to social programs, massive unemployment,
environmental damage and demoralization.
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Fantasia
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Fire
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F**k
DVD – 90 minutes
Food, Inc.
DVD – 91 minutes
For the Next 7 Generations
DVD – 85 minutes
Banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront
lesbianism in a culture adamantly denying such a love
could ever exist.
A documentary about the mother of all curse words.
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Lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how
our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful
of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer
health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety
of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals
surprising – often shocking truths – about what we eat,
how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.
In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four
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corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came
together at a historic gathering, where they decided to
form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen
Indigenous Grandmothers. Facing a world in crisis, they
share their visions of healing and a call for change.
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Despite the achievements of the women’s movement over
the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent
force in American culture. In this important new
documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at
California State University – Long Beach, looks
specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream
American media, exploring how negative definitions of
femininity and hateful attitudes toward white women gen
constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our
popular culture.
Filmmaker Brion Whitford is an Ojibway who lives with
the pain of advanced diabetes. This film follows his
struggle to regain his health by learning about The
Medicine Wheel. He also explores the historical trauma
of colonization and how it continues to affect Aboriginal
people’s psychological and physical well-being and
makes peace with this fact and his own troubled past to
move forward to a healthier and better life.
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Misogyny in Media &
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(The) Gift of Diabetes
DVD – 58 minutes
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(The) Haunting
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In 1970s and 1980s, a group of dedicated Saskatchewan
women changed the face and the agenda of the labour
movement in the province. Examines the history and the
legacy of SWW (Saskatchewan Working Women)
through the words of women.
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Why is it that young, independent, progressive women in
today’s society feel uncomfortable identifying with the Fword? Beginning as quest to find out whether feminism
can still be a source of personal and political power, this
film ultimately redefines the F-word for a new
generation.
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It’s Not Over Yet
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IVF Discussion
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I Was A Teenage Feminist: A
documentary about redefining
the F-word
DVD – 62 minutes
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Despite dire warnings for our endangered planet, Dr. Jane
Goodall says all is not yet lost – we can still change
course if we act now. And she should know. Her toughminded optimism comes from her work in Tanzania’s
Gombe National Park as the world’s foremost authority
on chimpanzees. As a scientist and conservationist she
has produced landmark studies of animal behaviour that
have led her to revolutionary insights into what it means
to be human. Now, traveling 300 days a year, she has
become a global advocate for all life, challenging
everyone to see themselves as caretakers of the planet.
This edition of the Journal spotlights Dr. Goodall and her
book Hope for Animals and Their World, which features
the heroic efforts of men and women working around the
globe to protect and preserve the Earth.
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Jane Goodall
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Portrayal of the Mohawk community places the Oka
crisis within the larger context of Mohawk land rights,
disregarded by white authorities for centuries and
destined to culminate in the 1990 standoff. The film is a
compelling reminder that this conflict began centuries
ago and the issues that came to a head at Oka will not
fade away just because the barricades have come down.
Aboriginal women let their hearts speak. These are the
voices of “warrior women” – those who have been on the
front lines of some of the most important struggles
aboriginal people in Canada have faced in the latter part
of the 20th century.
Jean Kilbourne’s pioneering work helped develop and
popularize the study of gender representation in
advertising. Her award-winning films have influenced
millions of college and high school students across two
generations and on an international scale. In this
important new film Kilbourne reviews if and how the
image of women in advertising has changed over the last
20 years. Uses over 160 ads and commercials to critique
advertising’s image. By fostering creative and productive
dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in
a new way that moves and empowers them to take action.
Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising
traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity.
The film marshals a range of new print and television
advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging
gender stereotypes – images and messages that too often
reinforce unrealistic and unhealthy perceptions of beauty,
perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne’s
groundbreaking analysis up-to-date, Killing Us Softly 4
stands to challenge a new generation of students to take
advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular
culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders,
and gender violence.
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of
Resistance
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Keepers of the Fire
VHS – 55 minutes
Killing Us Softly 3:
Advertising’s Image of
Women
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Killing Us Softly 4:
Advertising’s Image of
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A U.S. Social form plenary that addresses the importance
of integrating gender and sexual justice across
movements for social change
Exposes the painful, rarely seen human side of illegal
immigration – especially the growing black market trade
in human beings. The documentary also looks at some
practical alternatives to these tragic realities.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
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Ladies of the Lake—Some of
Nu Shu
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Landscapes of the Heart: A
Windsight Project
VHS – 35 minutes
Liberating Gender &
Sexuality
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Lives for Sale: A
Documentary on Immigration
& Human Trafficking
DVD – 58 minutes
(The) L Word (Season One)
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Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) is the leader of the 1968
Ford Dangeham strike by 187 sewing machinists which
led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in
impoverished conditions for long hours, the women at the
Ford plant finally lose their patience when they are
reclassified as “unskilled”. With humour and courage
they take on their corporate paymasters, and finally the
government itself.
Takes a critical look at reproductive technology and
provides a chilling account of its development and use.
Through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile
women, surrogates, and social critics and feminist
activists like Gena Corea, the film explores the origins
and application of the technology and the dangers it may
pose to women and to society as a whole.
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Made in Dagenham
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Making Babies
VHS – 51 minutes
Matrix
VHS – 136 minutes
(The) Media Makes the
World: A Left Forum Panel
DVD – 59 minutes
Memoirs of a Geisha
DVD – 160 minutes
Michele Landsberg…Iron in
Her Soul
VHS – 50 minutes
Mickey Mouse Monopoly:
Disney, Childhood and
Corporate Power
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Panelists reveal the various machinations of the
mainstream media, including its lack of coverage of
healthcare, its controlled coverage of the U.S. war on
Iraq, and the lack of intelligent/critical reporting of the
huge inequalities inherent in capitalism. They also point
out the problems of distribution while also praising the
many efforts of the alternative media.
Traces the life and work of celebrated Canadian writer,
journalist and feminist, Michele Landsberg. Candidly
discussed her life and reflects on the influences that
created her passionate commitment to human rights.
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Takes a close and critical look a the world these films
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create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and
class) and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values
propagated under the guise of innocence and fun.
Provokes audiences to confront comfortable assumptions
about an American institution that is virtually
synonymous with childhood pleasure.
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Militainment, Inc.
Militarism & Pop Culture
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Missing Young Women
(Parts 1 and 2)
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Miss Representation
DVD – 90 minutes
(The) Mists of Avalon
VHS – 178 minutes
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Offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into
the militarization of American popular culture, examining
how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble
Hollywood film, video games, and “reality television” in
its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range
of media examples – from news anchors’ idolatry of
military machinery to the impact of government
propaganda on war reporting – the film asks: How has
war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment
spectacle? And how does presenting war as
entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the
necessity and real human costs of military action? The
film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10
and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom
analysis and discussion of individual elements of this
wide-ranging phenomenon.
MISSING AND TAKEN: A Two-Part Symposium Based
on Film (Senorita Extraviada). By renowned Mexican
filmmaker Lourdes Portillo. Portillo’s talk is in
conjunction with a two-day symposium examining the
cultural, social, political, and personal aspects of the
disappearance of women, entitled Missing and Taken: A
Symposium. Aiming to act as a catalyst, this event will
include talks by key representatives from women’s
organizations, anti-poverty groups, native organization
and community representations, as well as presentations
by artists and writers whose work addresses the
disappearance of women and the implications of this
disturbingly widespread phenomenon for local, national,
and international communities. Symposium was held
October 27, 2006 at Darke Hall, University of Regina
College Avenue Campus.
Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live
with every day but fail to see. The film explores how
mainstream media contributes to the under-representation
of women in influential positions in America and
challenges the media’s limiting and often disparaging
portrayals of women, which make it difficult for the
average girl to see herself as powerful.
Tells the intrigue-filled story of the Arthurian legend
from the perspective of the women who shaped events
with spiritual powers.
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Media and Reality
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Moulin Rouge
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Mountains That Take Wing
DVD – 97 minutes
My Feminism
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Looks at the portrayal of women in informational,
entertainment, and dramatic programming. It reviews
issues of gender stereotyping, humor, gender equity, and
the commercial exploitation of stories of women as
victims. Viewers apply media literacy concepts and
deconstruction skills to unravel the messages about
women and violence in the merging genres of news and
entertainment programming. What is this programming
saying about women? What is the impact of the climate
of fear created by many media products?
Venture behind the red velvet curtain and witness a
spectacle beyond the imagination. Enter a fantastic world
where nothing is forbidden and everything is possible.
Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer
Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama share
intimate conversations about personal histories and
influences that shaped them and their shared experiences
in some of the most important social movements in 20th
century United States. The film’s unique format honours
the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging
from Jim Crow laws and Japanese internment camps, to
Civil Rights, anti-war, women’s and gay liberation
movements, to today’s campaigns for political prisoners
and prison reform. These insights, recorded over the span
of 13 years, offer critical lessons about community
activism and tremendous hope for the future of social
justice.
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In an era of anti-feminist backlash, this articulate
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documentary forcefully reminds us that the revolution
continues. Powerful interviews with feminist leaders
including bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, and Urvsahi Vaid
are intercut with documentary sequences to engagingly
explore the past and present status of the women's
movement. Discussing the unique contributions of second
wave feminism, they explore their racial, economic and
ideological differences and shared vision of achieving
equality for women. Introduces feminism's key themes
while exposing the cultural fears underlying lesbian
baiting, backlash, and political extremism.
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North of Dewdney
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some families are affected when gangs, prostitution and
drug abuse exist in our community. The script came from
a need to raise awareness on these issues and to help
prevent our youth from further negative influences and
destruction.
Not Just a Game
Power, Politics & American
Sports
DVD – 62 minutes
We’ve been told again and again that sports and politics
don’t mix. But the way sportswriter Dave Zirin sees it,
this is wishful thinking. In this powerful documentary,
Zirin, the iconoclastic sports editor of The Nation
Magazine, takes viewers on a fascinating and
uncompromising tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly
of American sports culture – showing how sports have
helped both to stabilize and to disrupt the political status
quo throughout history. After first exploring how
American sports, at their worst, have reinforced
repressive political ideas and institutions by mindlessly
glamorizing things like militarism, racism, sexism, and
homophobia, Zirin excavates a largely forgotten – and
ultimately exhilarating – history of rebel athletes who
dared to fight for social justice beyond the field of play.
(The) Notorious Mrs.
Armstrong
VHS – 45 minutes
Helen Armstrong was a working-class woman and
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mother who blazed through the constraints of sex and
class to become a legendary union organizer and strike
leader for women workers in one of the most explosive
labour confrontations in Canadian history, the Winnipeg
General Strike of 1919. Until recently, the fundamental
role that working women played in the Winnipeg General
Strike has slipped off the history pages.
A short film, explores abortion in Ethiopia through the
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voices of women who have faced the challenge of finding
safe care. Through their stories, we see the important role
that safe abortion care plays in the overall health of
women and their families.
This film shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant
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women and their caregivers in four parts of the world.
The film leaves audiences with a clear message: Every
Mother Counts.
Not Yet Rain
DVD – 23 minutes
No Woman No Cry
DVD – 70 minutes
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How are we to make sense of the transformation in gay
representation, from virtual invisibility before 1970 to the
“gay chic” of the 1990s? The first in-depth documentary
to cast a critical eye over the growth of gay images on
television. Leading media scholars provide the historical
and cultural context for exploring the social implications
of these new representations.
Chomsky details the Rumsfeld Report, the National
Missile Defense Program (the militarization of space),
and Vision 20/20 and points out the ominous threats of
these plans on our basic freedoms, as well as to the
environment, and the growing divide between the haves
and have nots.
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Off the Straight & Narrow:
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, &
Television
VHS – 63 minutes
Ominous Signs: U.S. Policy
& Threats to Freedom
VHS – 90 minutes
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As pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs the
allow women to stop their periods for months and years at
a time, Period: The End of Menstruation? Investigates the
social, cultural and medical implications of this
increasingly popular new trend.
A free-spirited girl who wonders what adventures await .
. . when settlers arrive on the shores of their village
Recalls life on the Canadian Prairies in the 1920s and
‘30s. Shows how women reached out from lonely farms
and a harsh environment to come together, working cooperatively to improve the conditions of their lives.
Recreates the history of these women through their
diaries, letters, speeches and articles, while linking their
era to ours through interviews with seven of them, now
aged 65 to 93.
This film places the voices of critics, producers, and
performers alongside the observations of men and women
as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played
in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships.
The Price of Pleasure moves beyond the liberal versus
conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a
myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and
pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility
have become intertwined in the most intimate areas of our
lives.
The virginity movement’s war against women.
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Pocahontas
DVD – 84 minutes
Prairie Women
VHS – 45 minutes
(The) Price of Pleasure
DVD – 56 minutes
Purity Myth
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Investigates the still prevalent practice of honor killing in
the Kurdistan region of northern Irq. The alarming rise in
the heinous act of men killing daughters, sisters and
wives who threaten “family honor,” endangers tens of
thousands of women in Irq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining
countries.
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Library
Goes beyond the vast body of knowledge available on the
effects of racism to help us understand the deeper
questions about how race is represented. Hall shows that
the meaning of racial signifiers (like skin color) are never
fixed, but depend upon cultural context, and are
discursive constructs, or “floating signifiers”.
In many countries, today’s young women haven’t had to
struggle for equality and on many levels women can do
anything a man can. But is it safe to rest on our laurels?
We chart the major triumphs of the Women’s Liberation
Movement and examine women’s rights worldwide.
Examines the impact of gender socialization on the selfimage and aspirations of young women.
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Race, the Floating Signifier
VHS – 60 minutes
Raising the Glass Ceiling
DVD
Raising Young Voices
VHS – 16 minutes
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(The) Greatest Silence: Rape
in the Congo
VHS – time length unknown
Reassemblage
Red Moon
Menstruation, Culture & the
Politics of Gender
DVD – 53 minutes
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Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Congo.
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And there are uncountable casualties: the many tens of
thousands of women and girls who have been
systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured
by soldiers. The world knows nothing of these women.
Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in
silence. In The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo these
brave women finally speak.
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ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the
women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of
interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage
reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic
representation of cultures.
Provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd
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and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and
superstitions surrounding women’s menstruation. As
education as it is liberating the film functions as both a
myth-busting overview of the realities of menstruation,
and a piercing cultural analysis of the ways in which
struggles over meaning and power have played out
through history on the terrain of women’s bodies.
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DVD – 85 minutes
Reframing the Montreal
Massacre: A media
interrogation
VHS – 27 minutes
Representation and the Media
VHS – 55 minutes
(The) Rite Stuff—National
Geographic
VHS – 30 minutes
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Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and
insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the
portrayal of North American Natives through a century of
cinema. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent
films, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s
depiction of Native people from the silent film era to
today.
On December 8th, 1989, Lloyd Robertson said on CTV
National News: “Now that we know who the killer is, the
question of course is: why did he do it?” This hard-hitting
video addresses that question, and looks at how the
Canadian media has shaped our understanding of the
Montreal Massacre by ignoring the issue of violence
against women. Looking back at the worst mass murder
in Canadian history, the artist asks “what lessons would
time and distance show us in the media’s portrayal of this
tragedy?”
An introductory lecture that unpacks one of the central
ideas of cultural studies—that reality is not experienced
directly, but always through the lens of culture, through
the way that human beings represent and tell stories about
the world in which they live. Using concrete examples,
Hall shows how the media—and especially the visual
media—have become key players in the process of
modern story telling.
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A thought-provoking documentary in which Golden
Globe-nominated actress Rosanna Arquette talks to the
film industry’s most talented and award-winning
actresses about the pressures they face as women working
in show business.
Senorita Extraviada unfolds like the unsolved mystery
that it examines—the kidnapping, rape and murder of
over 350 young women in Juarez, Mexico. Visually
poetic, yet unflinching, the film unravels the layers of
complicity that have allowed these brutal murders to
continue. Relying on what filmmaker Lourdes Portillo
comes to see as the most reliable of sources—the
testimonies of the families of the victims—this film
documents a two-year search for the truth in the
underbelly of the new global economy.
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Analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and
its noxious effects on young people. Experts criticize an
unhealthy culture created by advertising and the media,
and the many examples shown illustrate how children are
reduced to consumers bombarded with images of girls
treated as purely sexual objects. The film does suggest
ways we can counteract this worrying phenomenon.
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Creating intimate portraits of Khady, Oraiza, Gilla, and
Bilkusben. The women are abandoning female genital
mutilation, tapping for rubber to protect the rainforest,
opposing military occupations, sustaining the world’s
largest trades union, protesting dams that threaten to
drown their homes and lives, and safeguarding the
biodiversity of the planet.
Spectacular adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s fantasy. A
Cambridge professor and his friends hear tales, whilst
traveling in Palestine, of a lost city in deepest Africa
ruled by a beautiful woman seeking her one true love.
Intrigued by the legends they set off across the desert in
search of the strange land. Little do they know they are
being led into a trap of the immortal She, the cold
blooded queen Ayesha, who is pining for the return of the
lover she murdered long ago.
Created by Charlotte Hauk & Naoko Usui
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Saudade, Memory
VHS – 17 minutes
Searching For Debra Winger
VHS – 99 minutes
Senorita Extraviada
DVD – 74 minutes
(The) Sex Files: Gender
VHS – time length unknown
Sexy Inc.
DVD – 36 minutes
(The) Shape of Water
DVD – 70 minutes
She
DVD – 101 minutes
She Just Disappeared
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Sin City
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(The) Sorious Samura
Collection:
1) Cry Freetown; 2)
Exodus;
3) Return
to Freetown; 4) Cry
Freetown Director’s
Commentary
DVD – 1) 27 minutes; 2) 38
minutes;
3) 42 minutes; 4) 27 minutes
Starhawk
Surname Viet: Given Name
Nam
VHS – 108 minutes
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Cry Freetown – Featuring Samura’s extraordinary and
deeply disturbing footage of the battle for Freetown in
January 1999, this film is a unique and harrowing account
of the innocent victims of a war largely ignored by the
West.
Exodus – Award winning film sets out on a difficult and
dangerous journey across Africa, following in the
footsteps of migrants desperate to leave their blighted
countries for a better life in Europe.
Return to Freetown – Returns to Sierra Leone to show
how a rebel leader, driven by greed for diamonds and
power, turned thousands of abducted children into killers.
March 19, 2012, Keynote Speaker
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Turns to her own identify as a Vietnamese woman.
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Deliberately staged, long-take portraits, in which the
women speak rehearsed lines in quiet and shy but
determined voices, are juxtaposed with more
conventional documentary images of the same women in
their homes or at work, and with footage of younger
women who have been raised in American in
conversation with friends.
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Telling Trade Secrets
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Tillie Olsen
DVD – 66 minutes
Times of Darkness
VHS – 90 minutes
Tim Wise: On White
Privilege
Racism, White Denial & the
Costs of Inequality
DVD – 57 minutes
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This revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to
Tillie Lerner Olsen – a renegade, revolutionary,
distinguished fiction and non-fiction writer, feminist,
humanist, labor organizer and social activist. Politically
active, class conscious, deeply joined to the world, Tillie
countered the very core of America writing by
immortalizing the lives of working class women and
single mothers. Her short stories “Tell me a Riddle,” and
“I Stand Here Ironing,” galvanized the literary world and
set in motion an essential new perspective on the lives of
ordinary women.
A moving and essential contribution to our understanding
of the Holocaust and Nazi era, this inspiring film tells the
rarely heard story of women’s survival and resistance in
German-occupied countries during World War II. This
moving film is an important record of resistance. Offers a
stirring example of women refusing to compromise their
beliefs in the most difficult of circumstances.
In this spellbinding lecture, Tim Wise, author of White
Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son,
offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in
America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that
often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a nonconfrontational explanation of white privilege and the
damage it does not only to people of color, but to white
people as well. This is an invaluable classroom resource:
an ideal introduction to the social construction of racial
identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often
invoked – but seldom explained – concept of white
privilege.
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Tough Guise: Violence,
Media, and the Crisis in
Masculinity
VHS – 57 minutes
Tough Guise: Violence,
Media, and the Crisis in
Masculinity
DVD – 87 minutes
20th Century Gals
VHS – 46 minutes
Two Spirits
DVD – 65 minutes
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Examines the relationship between images of popular
culture and the social construction of masculine identities
in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this
innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz
argues that the widespread violence in American society
needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in
masculinity.
Examines the relationship between images of popular
culture and the social construction of masculine identities
in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this
innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz
argues that the widespread violence in American society
needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in
masculinity.
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Divided into 4 parts: Politics, Sexuality, Family, and
Work this video history weaves together historical reenactments, clips from personal writings, first hand
testimonials, archival records, film and TV news clips.
This film interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss
of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown
history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided
into male and female and many Native American cultures
held places of honor for people of integrated genders.
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A poetic and political film about female genital
mutilation. Female genital mutilation affects 100 million
of the world’s women and this remarkable film unlocks
some of the cultural and political complexities
surrounding this issue. Interviews with women from
Senegal, Gambia, Burkino Fao, the United States and
England who are concerned with and affected by genital
mutilation are intercut with Walker’s own personal
reflections on the subject.
Examines the search for beauty and racial identity
through the eyes of Maria Estante and Sharon Kim,
young women contemplating cosmetic surgery. Both of
Asian descent, the two believe their looks – specifically
their eyes – get in the way of how people see them. A
brilliant examination of beauty and perception: how we
see; how we are seen; how we see how we are seen.
After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain
close to his beautiful, mortal wife, Annie. With the
friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to
his new state of being in a setting that can only be
described as heavenly. But when his distraught wife takes
her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation.
Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together,
but no one has ever succeeded in rescuing a soul from
such a horrific fate. With the help of his heavenly friends,
Chris sets out on the most perilous and harrowing journey
of his life, or afterlife; a quest for everlasting love that
will take him to hell and back!
When Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand
parliament in 1975 she thought she might one day return
to her first love, classical music. Instead, the 22-year-old
MP was re-elected three times and blazed a trail that
eventually brought down her own government and
launched her as the foremost spokesperson for global
feminist economics.
Women of color fight back against sexism in hip hop
culture and the media
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Warrior Marks
VHS – 54 minutes
Western Eyes
VHS – 40 minutes
What Dreams May Come
VHS – 114 minutes
Who’s Counting? Marilyn
Waring on Sex, Lies &
Global Economics
VHS – 94 minutes
Who You Calling a Bitch?
DVD – 72 minutes
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Women’s Power
DVD – 86 minutes
Women Against Wars: Wars
Against Women
DVD – 52 minutes
Women in the Shadows
VHS – 56 minutes
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A stunning visual history displaying the range of female
leadership, wisdom, courage and creativity, over
thousands of years and around the world. Looks at female
spheres of power in politics, economics, religion,
medicine, arts & letters. Surveys women chiefs, elders,
clan mothers, culture-makers; builders, farmers,
herbalists, medicine women; priestesses, poets,
musicians, writers; witches, doctors, and scientists;
athletes, warriors, adventurers, rebels, liberators and
activities.
Talks by Nawal el Saddawi (Egypt), Arundhati Roy
(India), Saher Saba (Afghanistan), and Irene Kahan
(Bangladesh).
Like a broken necklace, the history of First Nations
women in Canada’s fur trade has been scattered and
forgotten. But one woman decided to piece it back
together, bead by precious bead, to reconstruct her
heritage and find her place among her people. A deeply
personal documentary film which follows Métis writer
and filmmaker Christine Welsh on a spiritual and
physical journey in search of her Native identity,
uncovering in the process a lost chapter in Canadian
history.
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