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License to thrive : Title IX at 35 by
a smart and highly-entertaining exploration of the unique history of the Title IX legislation and its critical role over the past 35 years in creating female leaders.
Call Number: streaming video
Salma / director, Kim Longinotto ; a Vixen Films production (Women Make Movies, dist.)
"When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma's salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village. As with her other work, master documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic woman. Salma's extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience. Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls, but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly. Salma helps us understand why the goal of global education of girls is one the most critical areas of empowerment and development of women worldwide."
Call Number: streaming video
Girl Trouble by
"In the past decade, the San Francisco youth crime rate declined, the number of GIRLS in the Juvenile Justice System more than doubled. This film follows four years in the lives of three teenage girls caught up in San Francisco's Juvenile Justice System."
Call Number: DVD 4772
The codes of gender : identity + performance in pop culture by
"Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The film looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of surface objectification and beauty, taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity and power relations. With its sustained focus on the fundamental importance of gender, power, and how our perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman get reproduced and reinforced on the level of culture in our everyday lives."
Call Number: streaming videoPublication Date: 2011
Killing us softly 4 : advertising's image of women by
Jean Kilbourne looks at how advertising affects ideals of femininity. The film uses a range of new print and television advertisements to examine gender stereotypes -- images and messages that often reinforce unrealistic perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. Killing Us Softly 4 urges a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.
Call Number: streaming videoPublication Date: 2010
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