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The Women's Studies Collection

The Women's Studies Collection brings together over 160 films that present the stories of women around the world. From the experience of single mothers in Korea; to teenage girls in prison staging a musical; to films exploring women's relationship to their bodies; crimes of honor, bride kidnapping, and sex trafficking; the makeover industry; mail order brides; women and Islam; domestic violence in Cambodia and Pakistan; girls and guns; philosophers, filmmakers and scientists; women organizing and taking charge of their lives -- The Women's Studies Collection is a broad assembly exploring almost every facet of women's lives.

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The Women's Studies Collection includes the following titles:

A Jury of Her Peers - imageA Jury of Her Peers

This riveting feminist classic probes the notion of women’s victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment.

Women Make Movies | 1980 | 30 minutes
A Maid for Each - imageA Maid for Each

The world of maid service in Lebanon.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 67 minutes
A Mother Never Gives up Hope - imageA Mother Never Gives up Hope

Candid stories of four older women who are dealing with abuse at the hands of an adult son.

Terra Nova Films | 2009 | 42 minutes
A Sense of Wonder - imageA Sense of Wonder

Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 55 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adult
A Sentence for Two - imageA Sentence for Two

The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 58 minutes
A Veiled Revolution - imageA Veiled Revolution

Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition.

Icarus Films | 1982 | 26 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Abortion Helpline - imageAbortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
After Tiller - imageAfter Tiller

Sheds a humanistic light on the heated abortion debate by going inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions and the reasons their patients seek them.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 88 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Against My Will - imageAgainst My Will

The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 50 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Althea - imageAlthea

Pioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 83 minutes

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