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Gabriel Women: Passamaquoddy Basketmakers
One of the most accomplished and giving basketmakers of the Waponahki peoples,
Mary Gabriel was born in the Passamaquoddy Township of Princeton, Maine,
in 1908. She was honored as a National Heritage fellow in 1994. Here she
tells her inspiring story of learning the centuries-old tradition from
her grandmother and of passing it on to her daughters, Sylvia and Clare.
Also included are Theresa Hoffman, executive director of the Maine basketmakers
Alliance; Joseph Nichols, curator of the Waponahki Museum in Pleasant Point,
Maine; and Kathleen Mundell, traditional and community arts associate of
the Maine Arts Commission. (28 min. 1999)
Gender and
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-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.
Gender Equity
and the Time Crunch: At Home and at Work
Stephanie Seguino, Assistant Professor of Economics, presents the issue of
societal gender inequity as a complex problem, centered primarily in the uneven
gender division of labor and resources that is difficult to ameliorate. She
presents the key obstructions to gender equality, and posits concrete solutions
for achieving real change. (1993)
The Gender
Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy Revisited
*THIS VIDEO IS CURRENTLY MISSING FROM OUR COLLECTION*
Guest
speaker Allan Johnson. A WIC/WST Fall 2004 Lunch
Series Presentation on 10/27/04.
Gendering
the Product: Women and the Visual Arts
This documentary deals with women and design, particularly product design.
It looks at the way designers have commonly regarded women when creating domestic
products and whether there is such thing as a feminine or feminist design.
Gendering of products can often be seen in the way the product looks, the way
in which its use is perceived, or in the more complex social relations that
surround the product. Also considered is the role women have played as product
designers and whether their growing involvement has altered the products that
are designed. (24 min.)
Gender, Schooling, and Forced Migration: Stories From Somali Women in the Dedaab Refugee Camp.
Patti Buck, Assistant Professor of Education, Bates College. Part of the 2007 WIC Lunch Series. 9-25-07. VHS and DVD format available.
Generations of
Struggle: Gender, Race and Trade Unions in 20th Century
South Africa
Iris Berger, Professor of African History at SUNY at Albany, explores the life
histories of South African women from different generations and different racial
backgrounds. Highlighted are the role played by South African women in labor
activism, their relationships with one another across racial lines, and the
changing construction of gender issues from the 1930s to the present. (80 min.
1992)
Gentle Warrior for Peace: Tribute to Rita Joe,
Mi'kmaq-Canadian Poet Laureate, 1932-2007
Miigam'agan, Member of the Mi'kmaq Nation, Phyllis Brazee, Director of the Peace Studies Program, and Paul Deagle, English Teacher at Skowhegan Area High School. Part of Canada Week. Organized by John Maddaus, Associate Professor of Education. Part of the Fall 2007 Women in the Curriculum Lunch Series. November 7, 2007. DVD and VHS format available.
Girl from Hunan
At the turn of the century, a lively, twelve year-old girl is whisked off to
a remote village and straight into an arranged marriage with a two year-old
boy. As she grows into womanhood, she develops a sisterly affection for
her toddling husband, but finds more substantial companionship in a furtive
love affair with a young farmer -- which places her in danger from the
village's severe restrictions against adultery. This video provides an
example of the vigor and maturity of the New Chinese Cinema. Mandarin with
English subtitles. (99 min. 1986)
Girls and Math
A McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, that focuses on an all-girls math class at Presque
Isle High School. This segment shows the advantages to and arguments for
having a single sex classroom. (58 min. 1987)
Girls Can!
This short film asks girls of various ages the question of "what you want
to be when you grow up", as a means of building up and sustaining their
self-esteem at a time when societal and peer pressures frequently lead to a
loss of self-confidence. (16 min. 1994)
Girls in the
Middle: Working to Succeed in School
This video accompanies the book of the same name. The third of three reports
in the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation's research
series on what is working for girls in school. Takes a very individual look
at girls who differ in race, ethnicity, and demography. Also broadens the definition
of girls' success by considering a range of successes- academic, social, artistic,
and athletic. (26 min. 1996)
Girls Like
Us
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify
in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of sexuality.
Filmed in South Philadelphia and following its subjects from the ages of 14
to 18, Girls Like Us reveals the conflicts of Growing up female by examining
the impact of class, sexism, and violence on the dreams of young girls. A film
by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1997, 57 minutes.
Girls Will Be Girls? Aggression, Sexuality and Body Image
Are girls becoming too aggressive, too mean, too sexual, too much? Are they dressing too provocatively, bullying and fighting too often, living too dangerously? The contradictory realities of girls' lives challenge us to think in more complex ways. Experts describe the impact of socialization on girls' lives and offer practical advice to help girls respond to narrow cultural messages about body, sexuality, desire, anger and aggression. Interspersed with the voices of girls themselves, conference speakers encourage adults to help girls understand the culture in which they are immersed, and to join them in creating strategies that offer girls legitimate avenues to power and possibility. funded by the AAUW Educational Foundation, this conference features Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., a visiting scholar at the University of Maine. Generously donated by the Women's Resource Center. 57 minutes.
GLBT Rainbow Millenium
Candace Gingrich, Keynote Speaker. Sixth annual Northeastern Regional Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender student leadership conference, April 7-9, 2000 (approx. 60 min.)
The Glass Ceiling
An in-service program designed to facilitate discussion about how women are
treated in the engineering profession. It helps examine the prejudices
and misconceptions that are holding women back and undermining the competitiveness
of organizations. Includes background materials, an implementation guide,
overheads, and a computer program. (30 min. 1997)
The Global
Assembly Line
Traveling from Tennessee to Mexico's Northern border,
from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, the Global Assembly
Line takes viewers inside our new global economy. A vivid portrayal
of the lives of working women and men in the "free trade
zones" of developing countries and North America, as US
industries close their factories to search the globe for lower-wage
workforces. We take a rare look at the people who are making
the clothing we wear and the electronic goods we use - as well
as the business decisions behind manufacturing - on the global
assembly line. (32 min.)
The Globalization
of Spirit vs. The Globalization of Selfishness:
Critical Contradictions of Advanced Capitalist Societies in the 21st Century
Howard Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecturer Rabbi Michael
Lerner. Part of the Socialist/Marxist Lecture Series.
Goddess
Remembered
Archaeologist and anthropologists are beginning to discover evidence of a widespread
early civilization based primarily on human cooperation. Goddess Remembered
reveals these forgotten cultures - taking us to the Paleolithic caves of France,
the Neolithic subterranean temples of Malta, the mysterious earthworks of ancient
Britain, and the sun-drenched palaces of Delphi and of Crete. (54 min. 1995)
Grace Metalious
and Peyton Place
A New Hampshire Writers Special that discusses author/homemaker Grace Metalious,
who wrote Peyton Place. The book speaks of the hypocrisy and history of the
town of Peyton Place, New Hampshire. Metalious's story was the largest selling
novel in history at the time. This film shows how Peyton Place led Metalious
to fame and ruin. (30 min. 1994)
Grace Paley
Part of the Lannan Library Film Series. Grace Paley, born in 1922 in the Bronx,
New York, is a poet and short story writer. Her three books of stories,
The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and
Later the Same Day, were published together in The Collected Stories. A
feminist and an anti-war activist, Grace Paley reads three stories on this
video. (60 min. 1996)
The Grassroots
Fundraising Series
A set of two videos instructed by Kim Klein, internationally known trainer,
fundraising consultant, and author of the book, Fundraising for Social Change.
She informs nonprofit organizations about fundraising. (1995)
-Core Elements
-- Series I
This video discusses the basics of fundraising, the role of the board, asking
for money, and major gifts. (110 min.)
-Building a Base
-- Series II
This video discusses direct mail, special events, and donor loyalty. (90 min.)
Grassroots Goes
to the Polls: The Impact of Citizens' Initiatives on Maine's
Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement
WIC Luncheon November 6, 2001 Speaker: Kim Simmons, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
University of Southern Maine and Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of
Minnesota.
The Greenhouse
Effect and Global Climate: Jessica Tuchman
Matthews
How serious is the "greenhouse effect" on global climate and the
environment? Very, says Dr. Jessica Tuchman Matthews, a Ph. D., in biochemistry
and biophysics. We are now facing the specter of the "greenhouse effect",
the prospect of overloading the earth's atmosphere with gases released when
industrial nations burn fossil fuels like coal and oil, and the Third World
strips its forest to farm and burn firewood. In this program with Bill Moyers,
she contemplates just how much the earth and the heavens can stand. Matthews
suggests that advances in technologies and international cooperation are necessary
if the world is to save itself from ecological disaster. (30 min. 1995)
Guts, Gumption
and Go-Ahead: Annie Mae Hunt Remembers
The personal history of an extraordinary African American woman is told in
her own words and illustrated with archival footage, stills and music. Actress
Irma Hall portrays Annie Mae in a video that weaves a tale of intimate experiences
with recollections of Annie Mae's grandmother and mother. Dramatically recounting
memories from slavery to contemporary times, the story is both harsh and poignant,
full of a rare spirit and joy and rich with the daily life experiences of black
women. It is the story of the strengths, contributions and heartaches of one
woman who can teach everyone a lesson about independence. (Color and B/W, 24
minutes, comes with discussion guide).
Gypsies of the
Footlights
The 1996 Minsky Family lecture given by Joyce Antler, a faculty member in American
Studies and Women's Studies at Brandeis. Antler discusses the personal and
professional odysseys of Jewish women performers in American theatre. Her talk
also portrays the rise of Yiddish influence in mainstream American theatre
performances. Special emphasis is on Jewish actresses, including Sophie Tucker,
Barbara Streisand, and Fannie Bryce. (90 min. 1996)
H
Hand on
the Pulse
Using interviews, photos and archival footage, Hand on
the Pulse is the poignant story of Joan Nestle, political
and sexual "bad girl." The documentary
traces Joan's life; finding her community in Greenwich Village in the 1950's,
celebrating the body in her writings, public readings in her black slip, having
a lesbian archive in her home for 25 years, teaching students "from colonized
backgrounds," participating in the Black civil rights movement as a freedom
rider, becoming a feminist, and helping to forge a new lesbian and gay consciousness
through grass roots organizing. Director: Joyce Warshow, 53 minutes, color,
2002.
Hard Work to
Make Ends Meet: Narratives of Maine's Working Women, 1880-1900
This video is a readers' theater performance that brings the concerns of 19th-century
working-class women to life. The performance is based on working women's writings
that have been preserved in the Annual Reports of Maine's Bureau of Industrial
and Labor Statistics. These narratives are woven together with the 1888 report
of Flora Haines, a state-employed factory inspector from Bangor. The performance
also includes songs and poetry of this era. Written by Carol Toner (University
of Maine). Adapted for the stage and directed by Lauren Bruce (University of
Alaska). (30 min. 1997)
Harpsichord Music
by Women Composers of the 18th Century
A doctoral candidate in Musical Arts in Historical Performance at Boston University,
Marina Minkin's performances have won awards in the United States and Europe.
This lecture performance features works of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre,
Marianne de Martinez, Anna Lucia Bon, and Maria Theresa Agnesi. (90 min. 1997)
Hazard Communication
"Your Class is Waiting" This program shows how schools can be as hazardous
as industries and discusses ways in which we can keep children and staff safer
with just a few simple precautions.
The Healing Years
A documentary about surviving incest and child sexual abuse. The Healing
Years profiles three women through their journey of pain and despair from
incest, and their incredible process of recovery as they finally work to end
the cycle of incest and child sexual abuse for generations ahead. Featuring
former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur and her nation-wide work as survivor
activist; Janice Mirikitani, President of San Francisco's renowned Glide Memorial
Church, and Barbara Hamilton, a 79-year old survivor ending three generations
of incest in her family, this film is artfully produced. The film illustrates
these poignant and powerful stories through interviews, intimate moments with
supportive family members, counseling groups, footage of their work as activists
and home film footage. (52 min. 1999)
Hearts and Hands
A dramatic presentation of a vital part of American history only now beginning
to be told. The video examines the role played by women and their textiles
in the nineteenth century's great moments and events: industrialization,
the abolition of slavery, women's rights, the Civil War, westward expansion
and the pioneer experience, temperance, and suffrage. The film and its
companion book explore the astonishing lives and accomplishments of ordinary,
often anonymous women as well as chronicling the lives of extraordinary
individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard
and Abigail Scott Dunway. "Hearts and Hands" shows how women
made quilts whose beauty far outshone their utilitarian functions and how
women used the needle to find their own voices. (58 min. 1987)
Heaven Will Protect
the Working Girl
The characters in this program are based on the lives of young working women's
turn-of-the-century New York City. Their words are taken solely from interviews,
memoirs, newspaper accounts, and other historical documents. (26 min. 1993)
The Heidi Chronicles
An original adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize winning play about
one woman's quest for fulfillment. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Heidi Holland,
an idealist member of the babyboom generation navigating her way through
the excitement and turmoil of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. (94 min. 1995)
Hell to Pay
A moving and politically sophisticated analysis of the international debt situation
through the eyes of the women of Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin
America. Although most directly affected by government austerity programs,
peasant women are assumed not to understand the workings of international
capital and foreign policy. Hell to Pay poignantly contradicts such assumptions
as teachers, textile workers, and miner's wives speak vividly of the causes
of the debt crisis and the burden they are forced to bear. (52 min. 1998)
Her Mother before
Her: American Indian Women's Stories of Their Mothers & Grandmothers
Celebrating generations, including a newborn granddaughter. Traditional songs
sung by Rebecca Greendeer and Irene Thundercloud. (22 min. 1992)
He Said, She
Said: Gender, Language, and Communication
Dr. Deborah Tannen is on the linguistics department faculty at Georgetown University,
where she is one of only four who hold the distinguished rank of University
Professor. He Said, She Said is Deborah Tannen's live video presentation of
her seminal contributions to the understanding of gender, language, and communication.
This program is produced, edited, and paced for curricular use in communication,
linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences. (50 min. 2001)
Hidden Faces
The filmmaker, an Egyptian woman living in Paris, journeys to her family home
and documents complex frictions between modernity and tradition in Cairo,
as well as rural Egyptian communities. Hidden Faces contends with the contradictions
of feminism in a Muslim environment and the profound attachments to traditional
family life. (52 min. 1990)
High Energy:
Physicist Melissa Franklin
To Melissa Franklin, building a machine that zaps subatomic
particles is as much of a kick as staying up all night
listening to Frank Zappa albums. She's an eclectic innovator
with a quirky sense of humor and she's also the first woman
to become a tenured professor in Harvard University's physics
department. In this profile, Franklin brings the cameras
inside the multi-million dollar, 140-ton particle detector
at Chicago's Fermilab. The detector, which Franklin helped
build, accelerates "the smallest things in the world," subatomic
particles, and then smashes them together to produce data that physicists can
record and study. Out of this research, Franklin and her colleagues have produced
evidence of the top quark, the final elusive particle needed to complete the
standard model of quantum physics. But a lack of support and frank apathy from
the government act as a main obstacle between Melissa and her dream. Part of
the PBS Discovering Women Series. (60 min. 1990)
Hildegard von Bingen In Portrait (Ordo Virtutum)
The Ritual of the Virtues is the oldest surviving European music-drama, and the greatest musical work by the visionary mystic, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Hildegard left a treasury of writings and music expressing the passionate intensity of her mystical experiences. Her profound knowledge seemed to come directly from a source of wisdom deeper than learning and tradition, finding its expression through the symbolism of medieval Christendom. She tells us that the spirit and the world are not separate but intertwined, and that spirituality and worldliness do not have to be separate either. Although she lived almost her entire life as a cloistered nun, she was deeply involved with the world on many levels - observing, writing, preaching and organizing a community. Through her many writings, she tells us that help is always at hand, both from the world we know with our senses, and from the world we discover through our hearts and intuition. (2003, 70 minutes)
Hillary's Class
A PBS Frontline special that discusses the journey of Wellesley's graduating
class of 1969, the same year Hillary Rodham graduated. Nineteen sixty-nine
was also a year of profound social change and upheaval for women. This
special shows the opportunities that were available for the women of Wellesley
as well as the choices that the women of the class of 1969 made. (60 min.
1994)
The Home and
the World
India's greatest filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, directs this deeply moving and provocative
film. A beautiful and sheltered Bengali woman's love is tested when her husband
Nikhil invites his boyhood friend Sandip to stay at his home while organizing
a boycott of British goods. Much to Nikhil's dismay, she not only falls in
love with him, but also joins his quest for political justice. Based on the
novel by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. Bengali, with English subtitles.
(130 min. 1984)
How Do We Talk
About Families? Myths and Changing Realities
Part of the 13th Annual Maine Women's Studies Conference. The speaker was Stephanie
Coontz, social historian and author of The Way We Never Were and The Nostalgia
Trap. (75 min. 1998)
How to Make 'Em
Laugh
This video gives an introduction to comic characterization, by showing demonstrations
of techniques. This video is written and directed by Sandra Hardy. One of the
main performers is Margaret Anich, who discusses how she comes across the characters
she plays. (50 min.)
I
I Always Do My Collars First (a film about ironing)
A documentary that delivers an artful and unexpectedly entertaining look at what is often ignored as a mundane chore. It's a film about ironing, but it's also a meaningful meditation on so much more. The story follows four dynamic Cajun women in French Louisiana as they go about their daily lives demonstrating how the simple ritual of ironing weaves its way throughout the fabric of family life and their sense of identity. Ironing, we learn from them, is a nurturing, emotional, and learned process, transmitted from mothers to daughters; it is performed with complex aesthetic sensibilities that connect these women to other women in their community. Through first-person narration, the women share with us a rare look at the rich interior life lived by wives and mothers in a traditional culture. By the film's end, we see that for them, and for their mothers, ironing has been as necessary to self respect as cooking is to eating. (English w/ French Subtitles, 24 minutes, DVD)
I is a Long-Memoried
Woman
This striking combination of monologue, dance and song chronicles the history
of slavery through the eyes of Caribbean women. Based on the award-winning
poems of Guyanese-British writer Grace Nichols, this performance piece describes
the conditions of slavery on sugar plantations, as well as acts of defiance
and rebellion that led to freedom, read by author Toni Morrison. (50 min. 1990)
I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine:
A Comedy by Lydia Sargent
A feminist comedy telling of the events leading up to that fateful day when 1960's feminist read about the death of feminism in various mainstream women's magazines, and elsewhere. The Boston Phoenix called it a "rich and funny wake and sing for the post-feminist ge." Filmed live performance at ZMI, 2001; includes soundtrack; 105 minutes.
Ida B. Wells:
A Passion for Justice
This film looks at the life of this civil rights activist's career as a journalist
and her work as an anti-lynching crusader. African-American author Toni Morrison
reads passages from Wells' journal as well as letters Wells wrote. (54 min.)
Ideal Femininity Changes Color: J Lo as the New Superwoman
Lisa Flores, Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies, University of Utah. Part of the Fall 2007 WIC Lunch Series. Filmed on October 16, 2007. DVD and VHS format available.
An Identity of
My Own: In Search of the Elusive Franco American
An on-campus lecture given by Eloise Briere, Associate Professor of French
Studies, University at Albany, SUNY and expert on Franco-American Studies and
the French presence in the Caribbean and Africa. Part of the Multicultural
Women's Studies Institute. (90 min. 1998)
If These Walls
Could Talk
An HBO original movie staring Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, and Cher. Movie looks
at three different generations of women trying to have abortions, from when
they were illegal to today's legalization.
If These Walls
Could Talk 2
Three couples over three different decades are bonded by the depth of their
passions, their unconventional love, and a house that might offer up their
stories. (96 min. 2000)
Illusions
A black and white film written and directed by Julie
Dash, set during World War II, that depicts the mistreatment
of a black woman who sings the voiceover for a Hollywood movie
that features only whites. (34 min. 1982)
Images of Women
and Nature
An on-campus lecture by Carolyn Merchant, the author of The Death of Nature
and Ecological Revolutions and a professor of environmental history at the
University of California at Berkeley, explores the intrinsic connections between
women and nature as seen through imagery. She also discusses the linkages between
this imagery and the evolution of the eco-feminist movement in the 1960s. (90
min. 1992)
In Depth
Deborah Tannen: In Depth is the companion video to He Said, She Said. In this additional 25-minute presentation, sit down with Deborah Tannen as she goes In-Depth, addressing key issues, implications, and criticisms about He Said, She Said, including: The nature/nurture question: are conversational styles born or made? Is gender the most important factor affecting conversational interaction? Are these patterns cross-cultural? What about power and dominance? How are linguistic and psychological approaches different? And much more! (25 minutes, 2001, VHS)
In My Own
Skin: The Complexity of Living as an Arab in America
In My Own Skin is a meditation on the complexities of the Arab American experience
through candid interviews with five young Arab women living in New York in
October 2001. Made in the weeks following the tragic attacks on the WTC, In
My Own Skin is a short but powerful documentary that speaks to a wide variety
of audiences about the issues of immigration, identity, religion, culture,
and loyalty in the shadow of 9-11. A film by Nikki Byrd and Jennifer Jajeh. (16 minutes, 2001)
In Women's Hands: A Film on Women, HIV, and Hope
For well over a decade, HIV has quietly but steadily claimed women's lives. Today, nearly 50% of all people living with HIV/AIDS are women. According to the United Nations, globally, young women and girls are more susceptible to HIV than men and boys, with studies showing they can be 2.5 times more likely to be HIV-infected as their male counterparts. Their vulnerability is primarily due to inadequate knowledge about AIDS, insufficient access to HIV prevention services, inability to negotiate safer sex, and a need for more female-initiated HIV prevention methods, such as microbicides. Filmed in several locations across the world, this short documentary is an important tool for organizing and creating awareness around the increasing rates of HIV/STD among women and the importance of advocacy for microbicides. The personal stories portrayed in this documentary speak to the need for microbicides and the importance of leadership on this issue and provide an inspiration for action. (2005, 26 minutes, DVD Format)
In Search of
Femininities and Masculinities among New England Industrial
Workers
An on-campus lecture by Professor Mary Bluett as part of Women' s History Celebration.
Bluett, a professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell,
uses tools developed in women's history to look at how gender roles were constructed
among male and female industrial workers in New England. (75 min. 1994)
In the Mirror
of Maya Deren
Filmmaker Martina Kudlacek has fashioned not only a fascinating portrait of
a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to
her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. Maya Deren is arguably the
most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American
cinema. Using locations from the Hollywood hills to Haiti, Deren made such
mesmerizing films as AT LAND, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and her masterpiece,
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON throughout the 1940s and 50s. This video seamlessly
and effectively interweaves archival footage with observances from acolytes
and contemporaries such as filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, dance
pioneer Katherine Dunham, and Living Theater founder Judith Malina. With an
original score by experimental New York composer John Zorn. (104 min. 2002)
Including Women
in the Science Curriculum
An on-campus lecture by Dr. Sue Rosser, a zoologist and director of Women's
Studies at the University of South Carolina, provides information and teaching
techniques on how to attract women to the sciences. (75 min. 1992)
Indigenous Holy Lands and Sustainability in North America
Winona LaDuke, guest speaker. 2005 Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture. 12/06/05
Influences of
the Invisible
Shot in South India, Influences of the Invisible explores the significance
of mythology and tradition in the collective psyche of women in India. It examines
the fusion of visible realities and conceptual ideals. Interwoven with casual
interviews and candid observations, Influences of the Invisible provides a
cultural perspective of women and their issues and context in modern India.
(29 min. 1997)
Integrating American
Women's History: Avoiding Race and Sex Segregation
An on-campus lecture by Jacqueline Jones, a Professor of American Civilization
at Brandeis University. Jones, the author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow:
Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present, among other works,
discusses recent works in American historiography and how these works contribute
to a curriculum transformation that allows for a more inclusive historical
canon. (75 min. 1993)
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 1930s, 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 not knowing whether they would ever see them again,
and the difficulties some faced in their new homes.
Into The
Woods: Maine Women Workers Now and in the Past
Spring 2005 WIC/WST Lunch Series with Vivianne Holmes, Julia Hunter and Pauleena
MacDougall. 3-15-05.
Iranian
Journey
Massoumeh Soltan Baloghie is the first woman long-distance bus driver in Iran
and perhaps in the Islamic world. Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi joins this
extraordinary woman on her 22-hour, 5,000-kilometer trip from Tehran to Bandar
Abbas, talking with her passengers , her family and people en route to learn
more about her remarkable story. These casual conversations strikingly reveal
the overwhelming sense of expectation Iranians express about the possibility
of change in their country, and the relationship between traditional and modern
life, city and country side, sacred and secular. A gentle and richly textured
documentary, Iranian Journey thoughtfully explores the lives and roles of women
at a time of transition,. A film by Maysoon Pachachi, 1999, 54 minutes.
Irezumi (Spirit
of Tattoo)
Urged by her lover to experience the art of tattooing (or,
to be more accurate, of being tattooed), a Japanese woman
has her back "decorated". This
becomes part of "an experience of sensual awakening and liberation, the
pleasure and pain of transformation, a mystery of obsession." In Japanese
with English subtitles. (88 min. 1983)
Iroquois Corn
in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Teaching
about Cultures Respectfully
An on-campus lecture by Carol Cornelius, Area Manager of the Oneida Cultural
Heritage Center and former director of the American Indian Studies Program
at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Part of the Multicultural Women's
Studies Institute. (90 min. 1998)
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 Boson Glob; Dr.
Bell Hooks, of CUNY's English Department; Dr. Tessie Liu, of Northwestern University's
History and Gender Identity Departments; and Dr. Marhta Wharton, of 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. 2000)
Is that
Your Mom? A Qualitative Investigation of White Mothers
and Nonwhite Children
WIC/WST Spring 2004 Lunch Series with Tracy L. Robinson. 4-21-04.
Islamic
Conversations: Women and Islam
Leila Ahmed, Professor of Women's Studies at Amherst College, argues the case
for revision of the widely held views in the Islamic world about the role of
women, using examples from history and the role played by women in the contemporary
world. She explains the origin of the veil and discusses the issue of marriage
and women's rights within marriage. (30 min. 1994)
Issues for
Women Composers in North America
WIC Luncheon lecture presented by Luisa Vilar, 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 Wiemann, Assistant Professor of Music. (2002)
"It's the People Who are Under the Heel Who Have to Lead":
Ella Baker and Working Class Black Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. Barbara Ransby, WIC Lunch Series, 2/19/04.
I've Known Rivers
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as part of the Harvard Educational Forum. Lightfoot
discusses I've Known Rivers, her book about race, culture, family, and
religion. (75 min. 1994)
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Japan
Jane Seymour examines how Japan's ancient traditions have blended with new
technology and modern trends to shape the society and its people today
in this four-volume documentary series. (each tape 60 min. 1987)
Vol. 1 -- The
Electronic Tribe This segment focuses on the contrasts between
the present-day life of factory workers and the inherited
religious and rural customs still found in the ordinary home.
Traditional ceremonies, including the bathing ritual, village
festivals and more are in the first episode of this fascinating
series.
Vol. 2 --
The Sword and the Chrysanthemum The second installment of
this series examines the influence of the Samurai, as both
warriors and lovers of high culture, on Japanese life, past
and present. Much of the warrior history is still a part
of everyday life in Japan, from the rock gardens and tea
ceremonies to the violence of Japan's popular culture in
comic books and television programs.
Vol. 3 -- The
Legacy of the Shogun The 17th century Shogun philosophy of
hard work, discipline and hierarchy continues to affect the
culture and social mores of contemporary Japan. The program
reflects on the rapid acceleration of industry and technology
in the country, industry that was nonexistent fifty years
ago and is fueled by the Shogun philosophy.
Vol. 4 -- A
Proper Place in the World The final episode in this series
looks at Japan's intervention on the world's stage during
the 20th century and its future as a world economic superpower.
The desire for economic growth in Japan has led its people
to embrace the best of Western culture while preserving Japanese
traditions. The role of women and their economic power is
also explored.
Jewels in A Test
Tube: Biochemist Lynda Jordan
As a teenager growing up in a dangerous, low-income housing
project in Boston, Lynda Jordan was, as she puts it, "on the cusp of becoming a delinquent
child." Today she's a tenured associate professor in biochemistry, working
on an exciting project: unlocking the secrets of a key human enzyme that's
vital to one of life most fundamental processes, giving birth. The inspiring
story of Jordan's journey toward that goal and of her efforts to encourage
the next generation of African American scientists like herself, is at the
heart of this profile. Her contribution to science is not only developing new
discoveries in biochemistry, but also developing new African-American biochemists.
Jordan talks about the importance of her undergraduate years at a historically
black university. Jordan stated the university was a place where she could
feel "strong, enforced, affirmed" in her identity as an African American
women while learning the skills needed to go on to a Ph.D. from MIT and a fellowship
at the prestigious Institut Pasteur in Paris. Part of the PBS Discovering Women
Series (60 min. 1995)
Journey Into
Courage
In this film six courageous Vermont women tell their stories of surmounting
the domestic violence and sexual abuse in their lives. (65 min. 1995)
Journey
Into Hope: Multi-Cultural Perspectives On Domestic Violence
In this film you will witness seven women and six men who speak from their
hearts and represent various perspectives. Compassionate voices show the relationship
between domestic violence, racism, and homophobia and how they affect individual
lives. Despite the overwhelming majority of victims being female, many of the
speakers in the film refer to the batterer as he or she to decrease the isolation
of men wo are abused by women as well. (2000)
Joy Harjo
Part of the Lannan Library Film Series. Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
in 1951, is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Tribe. She read from The
Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Secrets from the Center of the World, In Mad
Love and War, and She Had Some Horses. (60 min. 1996)
Joy Harjo
This is a different video than the one listed above. Part of the Lannan Library
Film Series. Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) nation, draws
on the history, mythology, and contemporary problems of Native Americans
for her visionary poetry. Ms. Harjo read from She Had Some Horses and In
Mad Love and War (which won an American Book Award). Poet Lewis MacAdams
interviewed Joy Harjo, which is also documented on this video. (60 min.
1989)
Ju-Dou
Acclaimed throughout the world, this Chinese variation on The Postman Always
Rings Twice almost didn't come to the screen at all. Chinese governmental
efforts to censor the film spurred Western filmmakers to speak out in support
of this remarkable film. The story explores the love affair between a factory
mill owner's battered bride and his overworked nephew, who turn to murder
as a means of freeing themselves from his tyranny. Chinese, with English
subtitles. (98 min. 1990)
June Jordan
The closing reading at the Fifteenth Annual Maine Women's Studies Conference
at UMO, "Women Around the World: Bringing the Global Home." June
Jordan was a professor of African American Studies at the University of
California at Berkeley and also an honored poet. She reads from her recently
published memoir, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood and from other of her works.
(2000)
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