Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and Feminist Ethics (WIC Lunch 2002)
Lecture presented by Jessica Miller, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Maine.
DAM/AGE: A Film
With Arundhati Roy
DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial
campaign against the Namada dam project in India, which led to
a conviction for criminal contempt by India's Supreme Court.
As the film traces the events that led up to her imprisonment,
Roy meditates on her own personal negotiation with her fame,
the responsibility it places on her as a writer, a political
thinker and a citizen, and the choices she has made. In a clear
and accessible manner, the film weaves together a number of issues
that lie at the heart of politics today: from the consequences
of development and globalization to the ever more urgent need
for state accountability and the freedom of speech. (50 min.
2002)
Deforming
Women for Beauty: Clothes and Shoes
A short clip from the Today Show on the ways clothes
and shoes have been used to deform women's (and men's) bodies
in the name of beauty. (5 min. 2001)
Domestic Violence:
Faces of Fear
This program examines the cross-cultural phenomenon
of domestic violence and looks at how the medical community,
law enforcement agencies, and corporate America are helping to
end the silence. It highlights innovative responses throughout
the country and around the world. Police departments in Nashville
and San Diego have an integrated response to the problem aimed
at incarcerating the batterer. This response has led to a dramatic
decrease in the number of domestic violence homicides. The impact
on children is also explored through a unique intervention in
Miami where children who have witnessed abuse are sent for free
counseling. In New Jersey a program educates teenagers about
dating violence. (60 min. 1996)
The Edge of
Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde
This video by Jennifer Abod is about Audre Lorde's broad
social vision and the translation of that vision into a historic
transnational conference, which used her work, while celebrating
her life. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) has been intrinsically important
to the development of second wave U.S. feminism. She consistently
challenged racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, serving
as a catalyst for change within and among social movements, in
which she herself participated: Black Arts and Black Liberation,
Women's Liberation, and Lesbian and Gay Liberation. A staunch
internationalist, she connected women across the U.S.A., the
Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
She died in 1992 after a courageous 14 year struggle against
breast and liver cancer. (60 min.)
English and
Algonquin Women in the Age of Homespun (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2000)
Lecture presented by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as part
of the University of Maine's 2000 Women's History Celebration.
Family Violence:
Debunking the Myth
Gender and
the Importance of Distinguishing Among Types of Partner Violence
Howard Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial
Lecture given by Michael Johnson, Associate Head of the Department
of Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies
and African and African-American studies at Pennsylvania State
University. The lecture highlights Domestic Violence Awareness
Month and the Women in the Curriculum and Women's Studies Program's
new research collaborative on violence against women.
Girls in the
Middle: Working to Succeed in School
Follows three middle school girls and the behaviors
they use to succeed at home, school, and in the community. (AAUW,
1996)
Grassroots
Goes to the Polls: The Impact of Citizens' Initiatives on
Maine's Lesbian and gay Rights Movement (WIC Lunch 2001)
Lecture presented by Kim Simmons, Adjunct Professor,
Sociology, University of Southern Maine and Ph.D. Candidate,
Sociology, University of Minnesota.
He Said, She
Said: Gender, Language, and Communication
A videotape of a presentation to a university audience
in which Deborah Tannen lays out and illustrates her linguistic
approach to understanding conversations between women and men.
Including video clops of children at play and talking to their
best friends, Tannen illustrates her claim that ways of speaking
tat tend to characterize and sometimes distinguish men and women
can be traced to conversational styles learned as children growing
up. (50 minutes)
Into the Arms
of Strangers: Stories of the KinderTransport
This Academy Award-winning documentary (produced with
the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Museum) chronicles
one of the lesser-known stories of the Holocaust: that of the
KinderTransport, which saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children.
In the late 1930's, England agreed to accept these children seeking
refuge from Nazi oppression. They were placed in foster homes
and hostels. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench and directed by Mark
Jonathan Harris (who received an Oscar for his 1997 Holocaust
documentary The Long Way Home), this devastating and
deeply moving film bears witness to the kindness of these "simply
wonderful people" and to the resilience of the kinder,
now elderly, who recall in haunting stories the unimaginable
grief of being suddenly torn from their parents, the trauma of
no knowing whether they would ever see them again, and the difficulties
some faced in their new homes.
Dahlov Ipcar
A New Englander by birth, Dahlov Ipcar (1917 - ) was
introduced to Maine by her parents, artists William and Marguerite
Zorach, who started summering at Robinhood Cove in Georgetown
in 1923. Ipcar, whose first solo show took place at the Museum
of Modern Art when she was 21, has gained wide recognition through
her marvelous paintings and murals of jungle and farm animals,
her pioneering work in soft sculpture and the many children's
books she has illustrated. "My drives have all been creative
ones," states the artist. In this film portrait, we visit
Ipcar's home and studio to experience firsthand the life and
art of a Maine Master. This portrait of Dahlov Ipcar is one in
the on-going series of the Maine Masters Project, documentaries
of Maine artist interviewed in their studios discussing their
lives and work.
Is Feminism
Dead?
Years after the women's movement burst open doors of
opportunity that had long been barred, a new generation of women
seems to be questioning the meaning and the value of the battles
fought by their mothers and grandmothers. Has feminism somehow
gone out of style? In this program, Patricia Ireland, of NOW;
Phyllis Schlafly, of the Eagle Forum; Ellen Goodman, of The
Boston Globe; Dr. Bell Hooks, of CUNY's English Department;
Dr. Tessie Liu, of Northwestern University's History and Gender
Identity Departments; and Dr. Martha Wharton, of the Ohio State
University's Departments of African-American Studies and Women's
Studies, appraise the women's movement as it currently exists
and discuss its relevance in today's cultural climate. (29 min.
200)
Issues for
Women Composers in North America
WIC Luncheon lecture presented by Luis Viler, Dean of Arts, Universidad de
las Americas, Mexico, Laura Artesani, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
and Music Coordinator for the School of performing Arts, Ginger Hwalek, Instructor
in Music, and Beth Weimann, Assistant Professor of Music. (2002)
Kama Sutra
(2002)
Librarians,
Quakers, and McCarthyism: Political Activism and Moral Commitment
in the 1950s (WIC Luncheon 2002)
Lecture presented by Allison Hepler, Associate Professor
of History, University of Maine, Farmington. (Part of Peace Week)
The Making
of Tres Vidas: A Play About Three Latina Women
Marjorie Agosin
Reads From Her Work: New Writers Series
Maryann Hartman
Awards 2002
Mighty Times:
The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks struck the match that lit the fire of the
Civil Rights Movement. Hardly and old lady too tired to give
up her bus seat, she was a 42-year-old NAACP activist committed
to social change. The 50,000 foot soldiers of this second American
Revolution were her neighbors. Their stories are told with sparkling
humor and rich detail, against a backdrop of archival footage
and "faux doc" reenactments using vintage cameras.
(40 min. 2002)
Nicole Brossard
(WIC Luncheon 2002)
Paula Gunn
Allen: Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Part of Women's History Celebration. Paula Gunn Allen,
a professor of English at UCLA and a Laguna Pueblo Lakota, has
written widely on Native American traditions. Among her many
works are Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook,
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions,
and Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary
Writing by Native American Women. (90 min. 1993)
Penobscot
Basket Maker: Barbara Francis
Playing Unfair:
The Media Image of the Female Athlete
The Political
Representation of Sexual Difference: Le Mouvement pour la
Pante in Late 20th Century France (Social/Marxist Luncheon
Series)
See Me: Five
Young Latinas
Shahrbanoo
Shahrbanoo is an unlikely story: An American woman,
Melissa, visits her new husband's family - which happens to live
in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Tehran. Melissa is befriended
by Shahrbanoo who has been moonlighting as her mother-in-law's
housekeeper for more than a quarter of a century without the
knowledge of Shahrbanoo's own family. Shahrbanoo invites Melissa
(and her husband with his ever-present camera in tow) to a family
gathering where she is treated to an intense cultural exchange
about subjects ranging from women's place in society to American
foreign policy. The documentary is an alternatively heart-warming,
hilarious, harrowing and heartrending testimony to the hidden
ties that connect us across vast cultural gulfs. (57 min. 2002)
She Says: Women
in News
A PBS special on 10 women journalists. Tells the story of how these women have
changed the media and the world. These women have given their unique perceptive
on the issues in our lives and reinvented the way news is told (2001)
Through the
Eyes of a Child
Tough Guise
The Undeserving
Victim: On the Un/Intended Consequences of Legal Regulations
to Protect Battered Women (WIC Lunch 2000)
A Walk in
Your Shoes Special: Sizing Up the Situation
We're Here,
We're Queer, and We've Got Heritage: Sex and Gender at Ellis
Island (WIC Lunch 2003)
Womanhood
to Buy, Whiteness for Sale: Consumer Culture in the Early
20th Century United States (WIC Lunch 2002)
Islamic Conversations:
Women and Islam
Women at Risk:
Protecting Yourself from the Contamination of Maine's Waterways
(WIC Lunch 2001)
Women Facing
War
The Women's
Movement in Zimbabwe: Unearthing its Dynamic Within an African
Setting
Women's Studies
Everywhere: Faculty and Students Talk about Distance Learning
(WIC Luncheon 2002)
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