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61) Who's Your Dad?
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a hidden basement of one of the best film schools in the world, female students gather to break their silence and share their testimonies. With the promise of anonymity, a dark reality previously unspoken about starts to emerge and the real truth about being a woman in film is finally brought to light.
62) Sacheen
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Revisiting the achievements of Sacheen Littlefeather, the first woman of color to utilize the Academy Awards to make a political statement.
Publisher
Aspect Ratio Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
64) Scheme Birds
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
SCHEME BIRDS bursts with the frustration of a generation of Scots let down by society’s promises. We see the fading steel town through the eyes of Gemma, a soon-to-be mother on the verge of adulthood. In a place where you “either get knocked up or locked up,” Gemma carves out brief moments of tenderness amidst the violence of her local scheme.
65) I Am Somebody
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard. Featuring Andrew Young, Charles Abernathy, and Coretta Scott King and produced by Local 1199, New York’s Drug and Hospital Union, I AM SOMEBODY is a crucial document in the struggle for labor rights.
Publisher
Unity Productions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Throughout the 1930’s, an unimaginable evil tore through Europe, as Hitler’s Third Reich terrorized its way to domination. During these tumultuous times, a young Muslim woman living in Paris found her calling. Noor Inayat Khan grew up in a home that fostered faith and hope. Leading with her heart, she overcame her quiet nature and joined Winston Churchill’s covert operation to give the Allies a new chance at victory. This is her story.
Publisher
Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
HARDBALL: THE GIRLS OF SUMMER follows the top female baseball players in the USA. All members of the globally ranked US Women’s National Baseball Team, they play BASEBALL - not softball - and fight for equality and recognition during the World Cup.
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MOMS & MEDS: NAVIGATING PREGNANCY AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION, is a documentary film that explores the options women face when they want to have children, but take medication for mental illness. The film focuses on the personal stories of the women. Other interviewees include doctors, advocates and family members who influence, and are affected by, these decisions.
69) #BlackLove
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (429 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Follow five successful, modern Black women, including newly single Monet Bell from season one of "Married at First Sight," as they discover the issues that have held them back from finding a fulfilling and loving relationship.
70) Birth Wars
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “BIRTH WARS” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save lives.
Author
Formats
Description
"Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure...
72) Sharp Edges
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
SHARP EDGES is an intimate look of the early years of figure skater, Tonya Harding. Featuring footage from the 80's and interviews with Tonya, her coaches and mother (portrayed by Allison Janney in an Oscar winning performance in "I, Tonya") the film focuses on her 1st National Figure Skating Championship 5 years before becoming the first American female figure skater to nail the triple axel.
73) Khartoum Offside
Publisher
Filmotor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sara is one of the pioneers and the team’s coach. She struggles not only with a lack of money, support and facilities, but also with bureaucratic problems: because she comes from South Sudan, the authorities make it difficult for her to stay in Khartoum. The filmmakers follow her and other team members in their daily lives, in surprisingly close detail. The women are outspoken about their opinions and talk—sometimes laughingly—about the violence...
74) Sexy Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
These days, sex doesn't just sell, it saturates our culture. In the age of runaway social media and "sexting," raunchy rap songs on pop radio and hardcore pornography at the click of a mouse—what's it like to be a woman? A girl? A teenage boy? Their parents? In this feature documentary, the directors follow a trio of characters to reveal the toll all this titillation is taking on America and forces viewers to get comfortable having the uncomfortable...
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Comedian Bonnie McFarlane dons her investigative journalist’s hat to find out once and for all if women are funny and report her unbiased findings in what some are calling the most important documentary of our generation.
Publisher
Hungry Eyes Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
SUBJECTS OF DESIRE explores the cultural shift in North American beauty standards towards embracing Black female aesthetics and features while exposing the deliberate and often dangerous portrayals of Black women in the media. From society’s new fixation on the ‘booty’, fuller lips, the dramatic rise of spray tanned skin, ethnic hairstyles, and athletic bodies, some argue that Black women are having a beauty moment. But others, primarily Black...
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Les luttes féministes et les luttes pour l'abolition du système pénal et de la prison sont souvent présentées comme antagonistes. Le présent ouvrage vise à délier ce nœud en explorant les formes de protection que les femmes peuvent (ou non) attendre du système pénal et en mettant en lumière les manières dont celui-ci affecte leur existence, qu'elles soient incarcérées ou qu'elles aient des proches en prison.
Le système pénal protège-t-il...
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Mothers and mothering have been a longtime focus of research and study in various academic disciplines, and common topics of interest in mainstream press and popular culture, yet the experiences of mothers and mothering in the area of sport have been less explored. This innovative, interdisciplinary collection provides a space for exploration of the complex dimensions of intersections between mothers, mothering, and sport, as athletes, players, participants,...
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Imposter, fraudster, rogue. Beginning in her late teens, Sarah Wilson traveled England on wits alone, often reinventing herself as an aristocrat's daughter and twisting her tale to match. She fooled the rich, the poor and the powerful into providing her with food, shelter, money and expensive clothes. Eventually caught and transported to America, she escaped her new master and resumed her dishonest scheming. This time it was the ruse of a lifetime:...
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For nearly forty years, Susan Bash Van Vleet has been conducting groundbreaking workshops that have helped thousands of women worldwide deal with personal blockages to moving forward in their personal and professional lives. Now in a compilation of articles gathered from her popular Women Moving Forward newsletter sent to workshop graduates over the last twenty years, Van Vleet shares valuable knowledge, personal stories, objective opinions, and up-to-date...
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