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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For 191 years the U.S. Supreme Court was populated only by men. When Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female justice in 1981, the announcement dominated the news. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, in her 25 years as justice she was the swing vote in cases about some of the 20th century’s most controversial issues—including race, gender and reproductive rights.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Ivory Coast is full of contrasts. It is a free society which promotes women’s rights, but taboos and persecution of minorities are also common. Up until recently, men always took the lead in any seduction. Now young women in Ivory Coast are free to have more casual relationships. They call it “mougoupan” – a hook up without emotional attachment. Madoca, a young Ivorian, says that it’s a way for her to claim her independence. It’s a...
346) Geek Girls
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nerdy women - the "hidden half" of fan culture - open up about their lives in the world of conventions, video games, and other rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones. While geek communities have recently risen to prominence, very little attention is paid to nerdy women. Filmmaker Gina Hara, struggling with her own geek identity, explores the issue with a cast of women who live geek life up to the hilt: A feminist geek blogger, a convention-trotting...
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When 20 year old Brandon arrived in rural Fall City, Nebraska in late 1993, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends and a pretty young girlfriend. On Christmas Eve Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of his friends who became enraged when they found out that Brandon was in fact a woman passing as a guy. A week later, on New Year’s Eve, the same men murdered Brandon along with two of his friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip...
348) Keepers of the Game
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Members of an all-Native American girls lacrosse team try to prove the game is their rightful inheritance, putting more than just a championship on the line. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"KEEPERS OF THE GAME" is as strong an argument that can be made for the rich emotional rewards of schoolgirls hitting the field to show everyone and themselves what they can achieve. - Robert Abele, **The Los Angeles Times***
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this **Peabody Award**-winning documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land. Shunned by the political establishment and the media, this longtime champion of marginalized Americans asked for support from people of color, women, gays, and young people newly...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With its reputation for being liberal and sexually-open minded, Scandinavia leads the the world when it comes to gender equality. Its empowered women are not afraid to express their desires. But is gender equality enough to ensure harmony between men and women? In this episode, we go in search of the secrets of Nordic love. From as early as kindergarten, children in Scandinavia are taught to challenge the gender stereotypes that society imposes on...
351) Frontline: Weinstein
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE investigates Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein’s early years, the film examines the elaborate ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers. *"WEINSTEIN is both a helpful primer and necessary addition to the #MeToo movement; one more brick in a large and unavoidable." - Maureen Ryan, **Variety***
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry - the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Most importantly,...
353) A Classy Broad
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At a time when gender inequality seems to be at the forefront in Hollywood, Marcia Nasatir’s story is one fueled by reservoirs of feminism and movie palace intrigue. Director Anne Goursaud, known for her editing work in Francis Ford Coppola’s *The Outsiders* and Bram Stoker’s *Dracula*, walks viewers through how Marcia’s passion for storytelling led her to work in publishing and ultimately out West in film, eventually becoming VP of Production...
354) After Tiller
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this **Emmy Award**-winning documentary, AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana...
355) Salt the water
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
357) The end of Eddy
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of heredity." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions...
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
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