King, Barbara J.
Summary: Twenty-four 30 minute lectures detailing the evolution of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 KINLacy, Scott M.
Summary: Find out what makes us human by learning where we came from.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 823 Anthropology 2017Summary: As the late CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner sardonically warns, this program is unabashedly a "broadcast prepared by men and makes no claim to being fair." In this cinematic essay produced in 1967, Reasoner takes the liberty to speak on behalf of men, offering a reassessment of the way they regard women and women regard themselves. Given developments of the Feminist movement at the time,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The producers of this program were granted unlimited access to Kabul's Baghe Zanana, or Garden of Women-perhaps the only public place in Afghanistan where men are not welcome. Here, women can gather, dance, and remove their burqas without fear of violence or alienation. In stark contrast, a women's prison is also visited. The courageous figures who inhabit these settings-including a resident...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Many Arab widows lead a cloistered and restricted life, often living below the poverty line. In 2003, eight widows in the Galilean village of Tamra started a daring business venture-the Azka Pickle Cooperative-seeking financial independence for themselves and their children. This Wide Angle report follows the women as they establish a tiny pickle factory and market their product to local...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Women in the British work force; some mildly sexist voiceover comments
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: A Meridian Production. One 28-minute video.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In the last 30 years, women have been enrolling in Christian and Jewish seminaries in surprising numbers. The Jewish Theological Seminary, for example, which did not ordain women until 1986, now has a student body that is one-third female. In this CBS News special, a wide variety of women in ministry discuss their experiences and triumphs, as well as their frustrations with old prejudices that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The program examines the Dominican Republic that tourists rarely see-a nation of sex markets, prostitution, poverty, and lack of educational opportunities. The current economic crisis and its effect on middle-class life are discussed, along with efforts currently under way to alleviate the social and economic problems. We hear from women on all levels of society, from prostitutes to the Vice...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Women in the workplace during WWI, Britain.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: Women on factory assembly line making lipstick
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Called easy women, shady ladies, and soiled doves, the women who went west to practice the oldest profession were the first ladies of the American frontier. Arriving ahead of their decent sisters, prostitutes flocked to the boom towns and mining camps, facing ostracism and abuse as they sought a piece of the American Dream.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Various strikes: The sit-in invented by auto workers; separately, seven women protest stage show producers' decision not to hire blondes.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: In the summer of 2001, 47 Iranian women neither affiliated with nor supported by any political party registered themselves as candidates for the presidential elections. Due to the Guardian Council's interpretation of a clause in the constitution, none of the women were allowed to run. This documentary presents the thoughts and opinions of six female candidates who agreed to be interviewed,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Isolated in jungles, or crowded into large cities, Latin American Indians constitute the most exploited sector of society. This program traces the harsh life of indigenous women from several tribes, including the Otavalan, Puruha, and Quechua of Ecuador, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics discussed include rape as an ongoing practice; labor exploitation; the effects of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval: Christine, a Masai who escaped an arranged marriage so she could study law; Dekha, brought up in a rigidly patriarchal Muslim town, who aspires to be a doctor; Anastasia, who works on her family's farm while yearning to become a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This is the story of Mexican women who have fought, and continue to fight, for equality and women's rights. They are women looking for children kidnapped during political pogroms, journalists, writers, and political activists. Machismo and the resulting sexism, as well as Catholicism and its perpetuation of the myth of the Virgin Mary as the standard for feminine behavior, are discussed as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: They gave their names to some of the most memorable plays in Western history, and, thousands of years later, they are still very much a presence in contemporary culture. Who were the women of classical Greek drama? In this program, the presentation of powerful women in Medea, Antigone, and Lysistrata is contrasted with the circumscribed role of women in Athenian society by Princeton...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: African-American women have two strikes against them-their color and their gender. Hosted by Tanya Hart, this program looks at the women who succeeded, asking what drove them to challenge the prejudices against them, what enabled them to succeed and to make significant contributions in politics, entertainment, civil rights, business, public service, music, and sports. Among those featured are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Factory labor: Women do small labor with loops of wires and hammers; woman operates a large press in factory; woman drawing wire or cable out of a machine that cuts the cables to length. At Britain's General Electric company. Women working; working class.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Factory labor: Women at benches operate machines; men draw white-hot steel bars out of a press machine; welders with goggles under watch of foreman weld lengths of steel cable together; working class; industrial; sweatshop. At Britain's General Electric
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Beginning with the classical and biblical subjects of Diana, Susannah, and Bathsheba, this program discusses female nudity as it relates to the act of bathing. Depicted as a chaste ritual, a sensual invitation, and a terrifying opportunity for violence, the act of bathing is deconstructed and scrutinized from an artistic point of view. Topics include the inherent dramatic tension of nudity; the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement; abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights by governments; and how access to medical services...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When it comes to corner office clout, women overall have not succeeded in the workplace to the degree that men generally have. In an effort to come to grips with that assessment, this program refuses to shy away from the hard questions as it sheds light on what is seen less as a glass ceiling and more as a glass maze. The central issue is whether, practically speaking, women can, should, or...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010