WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES MEDIA MATERIALS

WOMEN’S
AND GENDER
STUDIES
MEDIA
MATERIALS
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Abortion, Morality, and the
Liberation of Women
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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Access on Location – David
Suzuki
VHS – 120 minutes
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After the Rape
DVD – 58 minutes
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.
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An Attentive Life
VHS – 48 minutes
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.
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Anybody’s Son Will Do
VHS – 57 minutes
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.
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may be
damaged
Apocalypse Now
DVD – 153 minutes
A vision of man’s heart of darkness revealed through the
madness of the Vietnam War.
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Banging the Door Down:
Women & the Economy
VHS – 26 minutes
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.
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Battling Eating Disorders
DVD – 29 minutes
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.
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Beloved
DVD – 171 minutes
On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe is
constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted
her for years.
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Beyond Good & Evil:
Children, Media & Violent
Times
VHS – 37 minutes
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.
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Blindspot: Some Things
We’d Rather Not See
VHS – 11 minutes
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.
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Borat
DVD – 93 minutes
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Bordertown
DVD – 114 minutes
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
American-owned 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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(This) Brave Nation
DVD
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Breakfast on Pluto
DVD – 129 minutes
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
DVD – 85 minutes
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
DVD – 78 minutes
Filmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawake, her hometown,
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.
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(The) Codes of Gender
DVD – 72 minutes
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late
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.
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Communalism & Religious
Fundamentalism
DVD – 55 minutes
Talks by: Pervez Hoodboy (Pakistan), Tanika Sarkar
(India), Amargeet Kaur (India), and Anonymous
(Algeria)
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Compañeras
DVD – 40 minutes
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(The) Company of Wolves
VHS – 95 minutes
2 copies
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
DVD – time length unknown
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.
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(The) Corporate Theft of
Water
DVD – 43 minutes
A Talk by Maude Barlow WGST Office
(The) Corporation
VHS – 145 minutes
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.
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Cronos
DVD – 92 minutes
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist
tries to perfect an invention that would provide him with
the key to eternal live.
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Cry Freetown
VHS – 27 minutes
2 copies
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
Media & the Denial of Rape
– DVD - 57 minutes
Susan Faludi and Katha Politt trace the origins of the
backlash to opinion pieces which appeared in right-
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
After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus).
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December 6th
: Canada’s
National Day of
Remembrance and Action on
Violence Against Women
The December 6th
slideshow begins on December 6th
,
1989, when 14 women were murdered at L’Ecole
Polytechnique of the University of Montreal. The
devastation, loss and political awakening caused by their
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.
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Deconstructing Supper
DVD – 47.30 minutes
Deconstructing Supper is an eye-opening journey into
the 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.
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Designer Babies:
The Dangers of Corporate
Genetics
DVD – 59 minutes
Imagine a future in which physical strength and
assertiveness are the top-selling items on “baby menus.”
This program explores that possibility and other
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
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(The) Devils
DVD – 111 minutes
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 Theatrical trailer Plot Summary for The Devils
1971 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 witch-hunter is
brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready
for the big trial
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Diagnosing Difference
DVD – 63.45 minutes
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.
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DNA - Pandora’s Box
DVD - 57 minutes
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.
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DNA: Secret of Photo 51
DVD – 56 minutes
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.
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Dollhouse (Season One)
DVD
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
VHS – 50 minutes
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
Clothes
VHS – 53 minutes
This provocative documentary immerses itself in the
stark 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
VHS – 120 minutes
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Fire
VHS – 104 minutes
Banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront
lesbianism in a culture adamantly denying such a love
could ever exist.
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F**k
DVD – 90 minutes
A documentary about the mother of all curse words. WGST Office
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Food, Inc.
DVD – 91 minutes
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.
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For the Next 7 Generations
DVD – 85 minutes
In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four
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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Generation M
Misogyny in Media &
Culture
DVD – 60 minutes
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.
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(The) Gift of Diabetes
DVD – 58 minutes
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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(The) Haunting
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It’s Not Over Yet
DVD – 27 minutes
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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IVF Discussion
VHS – time unknown
I Was A Teenage Feminist:
A documentary about
redefining the F-word
DVD – 62 minutes
Why is it that young, independent, progressive women
in today’s society feel uncomfortable identifying with
the F-word? 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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Jane Goodall
DVD – 53 minutes
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
tough-minded 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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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of
Resistance
VHS – 119 minutes
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.
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Keepers of the Fire
VHS – 55 minutes
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.
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Killing Us Softly 3:
Advertising’s Image of
Women
DVD – 34 minutes + 25
minute interview
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.
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Killing Us Softly 4:
Advertising’s Image of
Women
DVD – 45 minutes
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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Ladies of the Lake—Some of
Nu Shu
Landscapes of the Heart: A
Windsight Project
VHS – 35 minutes
Liberating Gender &
Sexuality
DVD
A U.S. Social form plenary that addresses the
importance of integrating gender and sexual justice
across movements for social change
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Lives for Sale: A
Documentary on
Immigration & Human
Trafficking
DVD – 58 minutes
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.
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(The) L Word (Season One)
DVD
All the beauty, chaos, and complexities of a group of
women who inhabit Los Angeles’ lesbian community.
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(The) L Word (Season Two)
DVD
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(The) L Word (Season
Three)
DVD
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(The) L Word (Season Four)
DVD
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(The) L Word (Season Five)
DVD
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(The) L Word (Final Season)
DVD
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Made in Dagenham
DVD – 113 minutes
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.
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Making Babies
VHS – 51 minutes
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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Matrix
VHS – 136 minutes
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(The) Media Makes the
World: A Left Forum Panel
DVD – 59 minutes
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.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
DVD – 160 minutes
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Michele Landsberg…Iron in
Her Soul
VHS – 50 minutes
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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Mickey Mouse Monopoly:
Disney, Childhood and
Corporate Power
VHS – 52 minutes
Takes a close and critical look a the world these films
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
DVD – 1 hour 20 minutes
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.
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Missing Young Women
(Parts 1 and 2)
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.
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Miss Representation
DVD – 90 minutes
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.
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(The) Mists of Avalon
VHS – 178 minutes
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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Mixed Messages: Portrayals
of Women in Media - #3
Media and Reality
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?
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Moulin Rouge
DVD – 128 minutes
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.
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Mountains That Take Wing
DVD – 97 minutes
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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My Feminism
VHS – 55 minutes and
DVD
In an era of anti-feminist backlash, this articulate
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
North of Dewdney is a hard hitting play that explains
how 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.
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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.
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(The) Notorious Mrs.
Armstrong
VHS – 45 minutes
Helen Armstrong was a working-class woman and
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.
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Not Yet Rain
DVD – 23 minutes
A short film, explores abortion in Ethiopia through the
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.
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No Woman No Cry
DVD – 70 minutes
This film shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant
women and their caregivers in four parts of the world.
The film leaves audiences with a clear message: Every
Mother Counts.
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Off the Straight & Narrow:
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, &
Television
VHS – 63 minutes
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.
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Ominous Signs: U.S. Policy
& Threats to Freedom
VHS – 90 minutes
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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Period: The End of
Menstruation?
DVD – 54 minutes
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.
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Pocahontas
DVD – 84 minutes
A free-spirited girl who wonders what adventures
await . . . when settlers arrive on the shores of their
village
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Prairie Women
VHS – 45 minutes
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 co-
operatively 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.
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(The) Price of Pleasure
DVD – 56 minutes
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.
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Purity Myth
DVD
The virginity movement’s war against women. Luther College
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Quest for Honor
DVD -
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.
Luther College
Library
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Race, the Floating Signifier
VHS – 60 minutes
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”.
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Raising the Glass Ceiling
DVD
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.
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Raising Young Voices
VHS – 16 minutes
2 copies
Examines the impact of gender socialization on the self-
image and aspirations of young women.
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(The) Greatest Silence: Rape
in the Congo
Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Congo.
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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Reassemblage Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh T.
Minh-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.
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Red Moon
Menstruation, Culture & the
Politics of Gender
DVD – 53 minutes
Provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd
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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Reel Injun
DVD – 85 minutes
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.
Reframing the Montreal
Massacre: A media
interrogation
VHS – 27 minutes
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?”
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Representation and the
Media
VHS – 55 minutes
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.
(The) Rite Stuff—National
Geographic
VHS – 30 minutes

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& Running Time
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Saudade, Memory
VHS – 17 minutes
Searching For Debra Winger
VHS – 99 minutes
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.
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Senorita Extraviada
DVD – 74 minutes
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.
Justice Studies
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Annette
Desmarais 585-
5066 or CL 327
to borrow.
(The) Sex Files: Gender
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Sexy Inc.
DVD – 36 minutes
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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(The) Shape of Water
DVD – 70 minutes
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.
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She
DVD – 101 minutes
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
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the lover she murdered long ago.
She Just Disappeared
DVD -
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& Running Time
Sin City
DVD
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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
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.
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Surname Viet: Given Name
Nam
VHS – 108 minutes
Turns to her own identify as a Vietnamese woman.
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
VHS
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Tillie Olsen
DVD – 66 minutes
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.
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Times of Darkness
VHS – 90 minutes
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.
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Tim Wise: On White
Privilege
Racism, White Denial & the
Costs of Inequality
DVD – 57 minutes
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 non-
confrontational 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
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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Tough Guise: Violence,
Media, and the Crisis in
Masculinity
DVD – 87 minutes
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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20th
Century Gals
VHS – 46 minutes
Divided into 4 parts: Politics, Sexuality, Family, and
Work this video history weaves together historical re-
enactments, clips from personal writings, first hand
testimonials, archival records, film and TV news clips.
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Two Spirits
DVD – 65 minutes
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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Warrior Marks
VHS – 54 minutes
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.
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Western Eyes
VHS – 40 minutes
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.
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What Dreams May Come
VHS – 114 minutes
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!
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Who’s Counting? Marilyn
Waring on Sex, Lies &
Global Economics
VHS – 94 minutes
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.
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Who You Calling a Bitch?
DVD – 72 minutes
Women of color fight back against sexism in hip hop
culture and the media
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& Running Time
Women’s Power
DVD – 86 minutes
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.
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Women Against Wars: Wars
Against Women
DVD – 52 minutes
Talks by Nawal el Saddawi (Egypt), Arundhati Roy
(India), Saher Saba (Afghanistan), and Irene Kahan
(Bangladesh).
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Women in the Shadows
VHS – 56 minutes
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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