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Women's Studies: Films and Videos
W x W: Women by Women and Evening of Exchange
60 min., Art Com., 1985 - features the San Francisco exhibit show at the Galaria de la Raza studio during May 10 - June 1, 1985, dealing with Latina women's art. Artists discuss their work, background and ideas. N6538.H58 W15 1985. VIDEO
Waiting Room
26 min., 1980 - the pros and cons of abortion are presented in this fictional account of five women of different ages and ethnic backgrounds who meet at a Family Health Care Center on the day of a Right-To-Life Committee demonstration. The women reveal how abortion and birth-control affect their lives and families. FILM
Warrior Marks
Women Make Movies, Movie about the destruction and abuse of females and their genitalia in Africa. GN 484 .W352 1993. VIDEO
We Are Not Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
72 min., Video Data Bank, 1987 - looks at videos by and about women where the moving images are interrupted by stills and dialogue to provide a new look at scenes. Includes Ilene Segalove's Mom Tapes, Mindy Faber's Suburban Queen, Ardele Lister's Split, Brenda Miller's That's It Forget It, Fronza Wood's Killing Time. PN 1992.8.V5 W53 1987 pt.1 VIDEO
Welcome to Normal
By Sadie Benning 19 min., Dist. by Women Make Movies - About growing up lesbian. PN1995.9.L48 B47 1992. VIDEO
What Does She Want
6 videotapes, 70-90 min. each, Assembles work of over 25 women working in film, video and the visual arts. PN1992.8 V5 W53 1987. VIDEO
What We Do Not See If We Do Not See
50 min., U of A, 1980 - presents Agnes Martin's speech which is a philosophical statement on art being a celebration of reality (life) and she exhorts listeners to live true life through self knowledge and responding to one's individual potential. BH301 .S7 M37 1980
When the Mountains Tremble
83 min., New Yorker Films, 1983 - Rigoberta Mechu tells her story of life for indigenous people in Guatemala, the U.S. supported military government and the resulting repression. FILM
Whisper, the Waves, the Wind: Celebrating Older Women
28 min., Medtronic Foundation, 1986 - documentary of a performance work by Suzanne Lacy where 154 women, ages 60 - 99 gather and discuss aging issues and current events. HQ 1233 .W44 1986. VIDEO
Why Me
57 min., 1974 - ten women who have undergone mastectomies tell of the experiences: its psychological effects, and how they are able to cope with their problems. FILM
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
58 min., California Newsreel - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", first put the work-songs of African American field-hands on stage in 1902. Recreates the stories of pioneering women like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter and other women in the early 20th Century who left an indelible mark on the music and heart of the U.S. ML 3521 .W54 1989. VIDEO
Willmar Eight
55 min., California Newsreel, 1980 - presents the story of eight women and their fight for working women's rights in Willmar, Minnesota. These women were bank workers who organized a union, started a strike, picketed and struggled through NLRB rulings. HD6060.5.U52 W45 1985. VIDEO
With Babies and Banners
45 min., New Day Films, 1978 - presents the untold story of the women who became the backbone to the Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan, in 1937. Interviews with nine of these women draw connections with today's working women. FILM
A Woman Called Golda
192 min., Paramount Home Video, 1993 - A powerful docudrama of the life of Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, a woman who became a living symbol of dignity, humor, and hope for mankind. PS3551.V3 W6 1993. VIDEO
Womanpriest: A Portrait of the Rev. Betty Bone Schiess
56 min., New Futures Enterprises, 1986 - traces the history of the first eleven women of the Episcopal Church. BX5995. S29 W65 1986. VIDEO
Woman's Place
23 min., Films for the Humanities, 1985 - looks at women's place in the home in ancient Egypt and the ceremonies surrounding childbirth. DT61.A67 1985 pt.5 VIDEO
Women and Careers
60 min., California State-Chico, 1979 - presents a look at successful career woman, job discrimination factors and proposed solutions to discrimination. HD 6058 .W69. VIDEO
Women and Creativity
28 min., Host Bill Moyers examines how creative and artistic women handle their lives. Intensive study of Judy Chicago, Benjie Lasso and Mary Gordon. BF408 W65 1982. VIDEO
Women and Health
60 min., California State-Chico, 1979 - focuses on the women's self-help health movement, by presenting a discussion of general health care, contraception, abortion, female sexuality and menopause. RA564.85 .W65. VIDEO
Women and Islam
Films for the Humanities. Interviews with Moslem women on their roll and religion in 20th century life. HQ1784 .W63 1994. VIDEO
Women and Men: Barriers and Bridges
45 min., California State-Chico, 1980 - presents interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, and educators about the relationship problem between the genders caused by sex role socialization. HQ 1075 .W653. VIDEO
Women and Military Police
29 min., America's Defence Monitor, 1989 - women reflect on their role in military policy making. U21.75 .W65 1989. VIDEO
Women and the Family
50 min., California State-Chico, 1979 - presents a survey discussion of the nuclear family, alternative family structures, impersonal relationships in families, combining family and career and parenting. HQ 1420 .W64. VIDEO
Women at the Top
30 min., Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1985. - Discusses the role of women and society. HD 6054.3 .W65 1985. VIDEO
Women behind Bars: Rehabilition and Retribution
52 min., Princeton, NJ : [distributed by] Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2003. -"Issues such as sexual and drug abuse, family histories, and breaking the cycle of crime and incarceration are addressed through the personal stories of women who are doing time." HV9471 .W66 2003. DVD
Women by Women
60 min., I. V. Studios, 1985 - Presents several women artists working in a variety of media portraying woman as healer, mother, sister, abuelita, indegina, and worker. The artists discuss their work, background, and ideas. N6538.H58 W15 19985. VIDEO
Women First & Foremost
185 min., Monterey Home Video, 1996 - reviews the stories of notable women in history, the sciences, and arts. HQ1121 .W66 1996. VIDEO
The Women Get the Vote
25:28 min., CRM Films - The story of the fight to get the vote for women featuring leaders of the suffragette movement. HQ1420 .W6 1986
Women in Business
24 min., LSB Productions, 1980 - surveys and interviews women who have started their own business. HF5500.2.W6. VIDEO
Women in Islam
139 min., Islamic Publications International, 1991 - considers the issue of the woman, her position in society, her role in human endeavor and her rights and obligations from an Islamic viewpoint. HQ 1170 w575 1991. VIDEO
Women in Management
30 min., Martha Stuart Communications, 1974 - presents an open-ended discussion by women managers who explore how it feels to manage and to be managed. HF5500.2.W62 VIDEO
Women in Management, Threat or Opportunity
25 min., 1975 - drama, cartoon and montage examine traditional attitudes: interviews with women in management and open discussion in workshop situations examine problems and potential. FILM
Women in Middle Management
28 min., Martha Stuart Communications, 1970 - these women discuss how it feels to have succeeded in what is basically a "man's world". HF5500.2.W63. VIDEO
Women in Nicaragua: The Second Revolution
28 min., First Run/Icarus, 1982 - explores the efforts of women to gain equality and to combat machismo after the triumph of the Sandista-led Revolution which triumphed in 1979. F1528.W65 1983. VIDEO
Women in the Third World
30 min., WETA, 1987 - discusses the economic impact that women have in developing societies, and how their needs are not addressed in the "public" sector. HN980. G65 1985 pt.4 VIDEO
Women like Us
By Suzanne Neild & Rosalind Pearson, 1990, 49 min., dist. by Women Make Movies - Lesbians ranging in age from 50 to 80 tell about their lives. HQ 75.3 W66 1990. VIDEO
The Women Next Door
80 min., Women Make Movies, 1992 - This documentary about women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict provides a unique perspective on women's lives in the Middle East and the critical part they play in rebuilding societies ravaged by war. HQ1781.P2 W65 1992. VIDEO
Women of Hope
29 min., Films for the Humanities, 1996 - Uses interviews, news and archival film, music and literature to show prominant Hispanic American Women (Latinas) who made a difference.E184.S75 W65 1996. VIDEO
Women of Kerala
Films Incorporated, 1988 - women of this densely populated state in India instituted a program of education and birth control in the late 1970s and have reduced birth rates by 40 percent. HQ766.5 .I5 .W65 1988. VIDEO
Women of Manga (Niger)
12 min., Films for the Humanities & Sciences - The lives of the women of a warrior tribe and the traditions by which they live. GN 652.N54 W65 1992. VIDEO
Women of Russia
11 min., International Film Foundation, 1968 - film without narration views the diversified activities of Russian women. Here are ballerinas and bricklayers, pretty university students and 90-year-old ladies in an old people's home, husky bathing beauties and rugged crane operators, teachers, peasants, doctors, scientists. All women; all working hard for their families and their country. FILM
Women of Steel
28 min., Mon Valley Media, 1984 - looked at the difficult rise of women in U.S. steel mills in the 1970s and the disastrous effects that wide-spread industrial lay-offs have on them. HD6073.I52U625 1984. VIDEO
Women of Strength: Four Stories Form the Welfare Debate
18 min., Project Hope, 1997 - The stories of four single mothers bring humanity, hard reality, and common sense to the welfare debate. HD6095 W57 1997. VIDEO
Women of Summer
55 min., Filmmakers Library, 1985 - shows the story of how from 1921-38, 1700 blue collar women participated in a controversial and inspired educational experiment known as the Byrn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. E-13.259. FILM/VIDEO LD 7062.9 W65 1985
Women of the Earth: Australian Aborigines
55 min., fILMS FOR THE hUMANITIES, 1998 - Examines the lives of Australian aborigines through the eyes of aboriginal women. Shows the efforts to keep traditional identity, lifestyle, and customs alive through art, dance, and storytelling and the continual struggle for land rights. GN666 .W6 1998. VIDEO
Women of the Toubou
24 min., Filmakers Library, 24 min., - within the vast Sahara live an ancient race of pure blooded people. The Toubou are a happy and cheerful people of grace, elegance and dignity. Toubou women are treated as equals to men, they share aspects of life and are admired, respected as well as loved. The woman's fragile appearance hides their physical endurance: they walk approximately 20 to 30 miles a day to the marketplace. FILM
The Women of Troy
50 min., Films Incorporated, 1985 - explores whether Helen of Troy, "The face that launched a thousand ships" really existed as a Greek queen who was carried of by the Trojan prince, Troy. DF 221.T8 W65 1985. VIDEO
The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military
52 min., Third World Newsreel, 1995 - Documentary on young South Korean women who work in sex related enterprises adjacent to American military bases in South Korea. Also explores the lives of Korean American women who came to the United States as wives of American servicemen. HQ1765.5 .W64 1995. VIDEO
Women Serving Religion
Films for the Humanities, 1995 - This program traces women's roles in religious tradition and what it means to be a woman in the three great religions today. It also explores the cultural influences of feminism upon religious traditions and the beliefs regarding the ordination of women. BL458 .W655 1995. VIDEO
Women under Siege
28 min., First Run/Icarus Films, 1982 - presents actual footage and interviews of the lives of six Palestinian women in the town of Rashadyah as it served as a refugee camp until of was bombed in June 1982. HQ1728.W65 1982. VIDEO
Women with a Past
70 min., Video Data Bank, 1987 - interviews several video and film and film artists who are sensitive to the social context in which they live. PN1992 .8 .V5 W53 1987 pt.6 VIDEO
Women with Open Eyes (Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts)
California Newsreel, 1994 - Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. HQ1788 .F45 1994. VIDEO
Women Working in Literature
San Francisco, CA : Poetry Center/American Poetry Archives. American Literary Women read from their works. Including: Adriene Rich, Ntozake Shange, Carolyn Kizer, Anne Sexton, Alice Walker, Grace Paley, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Maxine Hong Kingston, Judy Graham, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Karen Bodine, Barbara Guest, Susan Howe, Erica Hunt. PS151 . W575. 1991. VIDEO
The Women
30 min., Films Inc., 1973 - dramatizes Shaw's relationship with the principal women in his experience, identifying Shaw as a pioneer in relation to the idea of women's liberation. FILM
Women, a True Story
281 min., Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. Women from around the world tell their personal stories and discuss the burning issues facing all women today.
Women, War, & Work: Shaping Space for Productivity in the Shipyards during World War II
56:40 min., Montana State University - A documentary about Vanport City, Oregon built in 1943 to support women shipyard workers. Includes rare photos and vintage film as well as interviews with former shipyard workers. F884.V36 W66 1994. VIDEO
A Word in Edgewise
By Heather Mcleod, 1986, 26 min., Dist. by Women Make Movies - Explores the role of sex bias in language in shaping behavior. P101 M33 1986. VIDEO
Word Is Out, Stories of Some of Our Lives
128 min., New Yorker Films, 1978 - interviews with twenty-six very diverse people, throughout the U.S., from ages 18 to 77 who tell about their experience as lesbian women and gay men. FILM
Working Girls
93 min., Charter Entertainment, 1987 - Drama about the experiences of women paid to guarantee satisfaction as told from a woman's perspective. Straightforward and honest, it treats prostitutes as people with feelings, concerns, goals, and dreams. PN1997 .W67 1987. VIDEO
Working Women: The Problems
24 min., Films for the Humanities, 1987 - "Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews single, working women and discusses their problems with Patricia Schroeder and Shirley Dennis from the Department of Labor."
Wrestling with Manhood: Boys , Bullying and Battering
60 min., Media Education Foundation, 2002. - "Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they [Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz] show how so-called 'entertainment' is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence."--Container. GV1196.4 S63 W74 2002 VIDEO.
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