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.
The Women's Studies Collection collection includes the following titles:
In Makoko, the largest slum on water in Nigeria, Mrs F. wants to unite women and perform the play called "Hear Word!"; a women empowerment project about gender inequality based on true stories to get women out of their oppressed position, to convince them to speak up and encourage them to connect. But even before she can start, she must overcome the unruly gatekeepers of patriarchy and religion.
Weaves together two parallel stories about the national movement to decriminalize abortion.
Academy Award-nominated film tells devastating stories from the era of illegal abortion.
Celebrates the life and work of Gerda Taro — a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose work would be forgotten for decades.
A portrait of two women activists in the Hezbollah, and an examination of the personal, social and political factors of their commitment to this Islamic movement in Lebanon.
Chronicles Ruth Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher, leaving no question as to why she became both a Vermont and national treasure.
62 DAYS is an urgent examination of a growing trend of laws that seek to control a pregnant woman's body.
93QUEEN chronicles the creation of the first all-female Hasidic ambulance corps in New York City.
Powerful and fiercely honest, I HAD AN ABORTION tackles the taboo of discussing abortion.
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