Women’s Studies Media Collection -Arranged alphabetically, by title- (Created March 2013) Title Format Duration Categories Description Year Call Number/ Catalog A Afghanistan: Girl Power Films on 27 minutes World Culture “‘I think when you are born a woman in Afghanistan,’ says Kabul native Noorjahan Akbar, 2012 Australian Demand Women of Color “you are taught every day to hate yourself.” But, as this film illustrates, Akbar is in no Broadcasting danger of falling into that self-hatred trap. The youthful activist counsels victims of Violence Against Corporation Women misogynist brutality and has helped establish Young Women for Change, an organization dedicated to improving the lives and human rights of Afghan women. The documentary Patriarchy also features a profile of Trudi-Ann Tierney, an Australian producer who creates shows for Kabul’s Tolo TV network. Tierney’s difficulties in promoting a progressive image of women, and even in ensuring the safety of female performers, echo the ongoing hurdles Afghanistan faces as a torn and violent nation.” – Films on Demand After the Montreal Massacre VHS 28 minutes History “ ne year after the massacre of fourteen women at ontre al s cole olytechni ue on 1990 VCT 3606 December 6, 1989, this video looks at the issue of male violence against women, women's Violence Against fear, and what we as a society must do.” – GIL catalog Women Women Make Movies After the Rape: Mukhtar Mai Films on 23 minutes Criminal Justice “ ukhtar ai was gang-raped, but it wasn’t considered a crime; it was a sentence handed 2005 Women Make Seeking Justice in Pakistan Demand Law down by a Pakistani tribal council—a punishment for the alleged indiscretions of her Movies World Culture younger brother. This ABC News program confronts the council’s decision, a ruling Sexual Assault declared an outrage by a local imam and others, while introducing the courageous woman who chose to defy custom and fight for justice in the akistani courts.” – Films on Demand Patriarchy Women of Color Aimee & Jaguar DVD 125 minutes History “Based on a true story, Aime e aguar is an unforgettable film about love, passion and the 1998 DVD 1458 LGBTQ triumph of the human spirit. In the darkest days of World War II, while the Allies are World Culture bombing Berlin as the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair Feature Film blossoms between two women. or illy aka Aime e , a married woman, the mother of four sons, and an exemplar of Nazi motherhood, this affair will be the decisive experience of her life. For Felice (aka "Jaguar"), Jewish, and a member of the underground, their love fuels her hope for survival. A half-century later, their incredible story became an international bestseller. a a rberbo ck s award-winning film brings this extraordinary relationship to life. --From the cover. Albert Nobbs (2011) DVD 113 minutes Feature Film Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) gives a "powerhouse performance" (New York Post) as a 2011 Sex & Gender woman who passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some LGBTQ thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Alice Walker Films on 33 Women of Color “ Being black, being a woman, and being a writer is just the most wonderful challenge. It’s 1992 California Newsreel Demand Minutes Women’s History like having three eyes, three hearts, rather than one," says the author of The Color Purple Literature in this profile, as she relives her journey from an impoverished childhood in rural Georgia Feminism to the peace and creativity of her present life in northern California. Alice Walker describes how the Civil Rights movement transformed her life, defines her concept of Patriarchy womanism, and e plains her recurrent theme of a woman’s recovery of wholeness Race through resistance to racism and se ism.” – Films on Demand Alice Walker: A Portrait in the First VHS 28 minutes Women of Color “ im Hanley interviews Alice Walker, author of the novel The Color urple . Her 1994 VCT 1673 Person Women’s History discussion touches on a variety of topics including family violence and the position of Literature black women in America.” – GIL catalog Patriarchy Alice Walker and the Color Purple VHS 62 minutes Women of Color “A masterfully filmed interview in which the author s comments and recitations are 1986 VCT 2618 Women’s History juxtaposed with dramatic interpretations of her novel and clips from the film adaptation. Literature Director Steven Spielberg is also interviewed.” – GIL catalog American Experience: Fly Girls DVD 56 minutes Women’s History During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, 1999 (1999) Women in the mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) Military test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight Women’s Rights women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women Patriarchy would again break the sex barrier in the skies. Feature Film American Experience: Stonewall DVD 90 minutes Women’s History Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights 2011 Uprising LGBTQ movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village the Stonewall Inn LGBTQ Rights on June 28 1969 gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought Women’s Rights back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived. Feature Film Anything You Can Do, I Can Do VHS 51 minutes Sex “Statistically speaking, why have men and women not proved e ually adept at the same 1999 VCT 3527 Better: Why the sexes excel Biology things? In this program, researchers debate whether differences in brain architecture lead to a division of talents and aptitudes between the sexes--and draw some startling differently conclusions. To illustrate these differences, children are observed in classrooms, on the playground, and at home.” – GIL catalog The Art of Women’s Health (9 VHS 225 minutes Sex & Gender “Although women have been left out of federally funded medical studies for years, it is 2000 VCT 3434 cassettes) Patriarchy somewhat comforting to know that spending on women's health research is at an all-time Women’s Health high. This research has revealed that gender differences do exist and that what works for men does not necessarily translate in the care and treatment of women" – Container. Asking For It: The Ethics and DVD 38 minutes Sex Education “The line between se ual consent and se ual coercion is not always as clear as it seems, 2010 DVD 1467 Erotics of Sexual Consent Sexual Assault and according to to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod, a professor of philosophy and leader in the pro-feminist men's movement, offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that Media Education complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must Foundation always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. In a non-threatening, non-hectoring discussion that ranges from the meanings of "yes" and "no" to the indeterminacy of silence to the way alcohol affects our ethical responsibilities, Brod challenges young people to envision a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic.” --Container. Assume Nothing Films on 80 minutes LGBTQ “Artistic e pression of alternatively gendered people’s lives reveals a captivating world 2009 Smiley Film Sales Demand Biology where gender cannot be defined as simply male or female. This program features New Sex & Gender Zealand photographer Rebecca Swan and her images for Assume Nothing, a book that World Culture e plores the beauty and comple ity of gender identity. our of Swan’s subjects speak candidly about their own gender identities and experiences, focusing on their creative expression as artists: Mani, born an intersex child who was raised as a girl by her parents from a very young age; Ema, a Maori woman who identifies strongly with elements of both the female and male genders; Jack, a transgender poet who underwent surgery to transition physically from female to male; and Shigeyuki, an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist who is a Samoan- apanese a’a fafine, who was born in a man’s body but blessed with the spirit of a woman (and a man). Contains explicit language and imagery.” – Films on Demand B Bacha Posh: You Will Be a Boy, My Films on 52 minutes Sex & Gender “In Afghanistan, an old tradition allows families without a son to transform one of their 2012 Java Films Daughter Demand World Culture daughters into a boy. These little girls, known as bacha posh, spend their early years Women of Color dressed as boys and are accorded all the privileges and responsibilities of being male—but LGBTQ after puberty, they must revert to the female roles into which they were born. This program follows four girls who temporarily became the sons their parents longed for. Patriarchy Shabina has recently become bacha posh to help her disabled father and seems to be taking it all in stride. or ariam and Naid, it’s time to change back, but both are desperate to hang on to their male identities. Lastly we meet Jack, a bacha posh who refused to change back and who now heads for Europe.