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DAUGHTERS OF THE TROUBLES: BELFAST STORIESIrish Studies Sociology Women's Studies Directed by Women
This documentary offers first-person accounts of the lives of two working-class
Belfast women told against the violent history of the last twenty-five years in Northern
Ireland.
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REEL IRISHDance Irish Studies Performing Arts Women's Studies Immigration
This video examines the world of amateur Irish dancing, featuring interviews with Irish
women in Great Britain who have passed on this cultural tradition within their own
families and the wider Irish immigrant community.
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HULL HOUSE: THE HOUSE THAT JANE BUILTAmerican History American Studies Sociology Women's Studies Immigration
In 1889, amidst the slums of Chicago's Near West Side, pioneer social worker Jane
Addams (1860-1935) opened Hull House to aid the poor, largely immigrant residents of
the neighborhood.
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IT'S OUR BABYFamily Relations Psychology & Psychiatry Women's Studies Sociology Directed by Women
Examines nurse-midwifery as a significant and increasingly popular alternative to
traditional hospital childbirth methods.
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THROUGH YOUNG PEOPLE'S EYESFamily Relations Latino Studies Sociology Women's Studies Directed by Women
An insightful documentary portrait of young black and Hispanic teenagers, primarily
girls, growing up in a poor urban neighborhood.
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DOLORESFamily Relations Latino Studies Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology Women's Studies
This short drama on domestic abuse, based on extensive research with battered Latinas,
focuses on a Hispanic family, showing how the father's machismo has intimidated both
wife and daughter into continual fear of physical abuse and alienated the son who resents
his father's authoritarian attitudes.
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MOTHER'S JOURNEY, AAsian Studies Family Relations Psychology & Psychiatry Women's Studies
Chronicles the experience of 46-year-old Suzanne, an unmarried American woman who,
desiring to create a single-parent family of her own, adopts a baby abandoned on the
streets of China in the wake of that country's notorious population laws. Her emotional
ordeal illuminates both the joys and problems involved in adopting foreign children and in
being a single parent.
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WOMEN IN BLACK (by claudia sherwood)Religion & Spirituality Women's Studies Directed by Women
Growing up Catholic has had a strong impact on many people. This kaleidoscope of baby
boomers' memories features adults describing, with a sense of humor and a sense of
survival, childhood experiences of physical and psychological punishment during their
education by Catholic nuns, especially in the Fifties and Sixties.
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RAPE/CRISISCriminal & Law Psychology & Psychiatry Women's Studies
A compelling investigation of the trauma of rape, portraying the aftermath of a rape and
the work of the Rape Crisis Center in Austin, Texas.
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THROUGH THE WIREAmerican Studies Criminal & Law Psychology & Psychiatry Women's Studies Directed by Women
Reveals the shocking conditions at the Female High Security Unit at the federal prison in
Lexington, Kentucky, where three women political prisoners, currently serving sentences
ranging from thirty-five to fifty-eight years in solitary confinement, have been subjected
to psychological experimentation (including sensory deprivation and constant video
surveillance) and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment.
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HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR SERIES: WOMEN IN THE CORPORATION
This film shows how a firm with 60% women employees, most of whom felt stuck in clerical jobs with no chance for advancement, instituted an affirmative action program, dealt with attitude change, self-awareness and management training.
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SHEPHERD'S PIE AND SUSHIAsian-American Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Women's Studies Directed by Women Immigration
In 1993, Mieko Ouchi, a half-white, half-Japanese actress, began researching a
documentary about her Japanese immigrant grandfather. Shortly thereafter, she was cast
to star in The War Between Us, a feature film on the WWII internment of Japanese-North
Americans, thus re-enacting a key episode in her own community's history.
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UP SOUTHWorld History Women's Studies Labor Studies American Studies African-American Studies
Part of the Who Built America? series, this video tells the vivid tale of the African-American exodus from the rural South to northern industrial cities during World War I.
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DOING AS THEY CAN: slave life in the american southAmerican Studies American History African-American Studies World History Women's Studies Labor Studies
This video features a fugitive woman slave describing life, work, and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a North Carolina cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s.
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TEA PARTY ETIQUETTEAmerican Studies American History World History Women's Studies Labor Studies
This video is based on the life of Boston shoemaker George Robert Twelves and reveals how working people helped make the American Revolution.
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SUDDEN CHANGES: POST HYSTERECTOMY SYNDROMEHealth Human Sexuality Sociology Women's Studies Directed by Women
Examines the reasons for the high number of hysterectomies performed on women every
year, the alternatives available, the side effects and after-effects. Includes interviews with
doctors, other professionals, and women who have undergone the operation.
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THE ULTIMATE TEST ANIMALWomen's Studies Sociology Human Sexuality Health
Examines the birth control injection Depo Provera and the international controversy over
its use, raising disturbing questions about racism and sexism in health care, population
control vs. birth control, and how drugs are tested and marketed.
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CONTRACEPTION: THE STALLED REVOLUTIONAIDS American Studies Health Human Sexuality Women's Studies
Journalist Linda Ellerbee examines the state of contraception in the U.S. today, including
women's dissatisfaction with the methods currently available.
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TEENAGE MOTHERS: A GLOBAL CRISISCultural Studies Education Family Relations Health Human Sexuality Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology Women's Studies Children & Young Adult Cuban Studies
Examines the worldwide crisis in teenage pregnancies through four case studies of teenage
mothers in Ghana, England, Cuba, and the U.S., thereby providing a cross-cultural survey
of the underlying reasons for the increasing rate of adolescent pregnancies and also
discussing the hazards to the health and well-being of such young mothers.
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PUERTO RICO: ART AND IDENTITYAmerican History American Studies Art History Economics Latino Studies Latin-American Studies Puerto Rican Studies Religion & Spirituality Short Films Sociology Spanish Language Women's Studies Directed by Women
Surveys the work of plastic artists in Puerto Rico during the 20th century, as well as
significant forerunners in the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the artists' expression
of national identity. The video combines illustrations of hundreds of art works with
interviews with a dozen major contemporary artists and commentary by art critics.
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