Programs with the subject 'Women's Studies'

• 6th International Women's Video Festival
  March 8th --International Women's Day-- was inspired by a militant street demonstration in 1908, when women from sweatshops and tenements on New York's Lower East Side marched to Union Square with demands for higher wages, better working conditions, the right to vote and an end to child labor. This video, for the sixth consecutive year, documents this event.
• 8th International Women's Day Video Festival
  Celebrates women at many different ages.
• 8th International Women's Day Video Festival:
  Explores the personal and political discoveries in women's lives in light of 500 years of Eurocentric culture and indigenous resistance in the Americas.
• A Dish Of Central America
  The goal of this video is to bring to light some of the popular misconceptions that people have about Central America. It brings together experpts to help people understand the various countries that make up the region.
• Alice Walker
  Internationally acclaimed author Alice Walker talks about growing up poor in rural Georgia and the experiences that led her to become a writer. She also reads excerpts from her best known novel.
• Black Women, Sexual Politics, and the Revolution
  Feminist home-girls offer an indestructible analysis of sex, class and gender attitudes in the Black and Latino communities.
• Born to Be Sold: The Strange Case of Baby M/S
  On Paper Tiger, Martha Rosler discusses the media coverage of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead.
• Community Visions
  The first half-hour "From Victim to Survivor” depicts with sensitivity the ability of survivors of sexual violence to heal. The second half-hour, "Peace at Home”, offers insights into the experiences of survivors of domestic violence and examples of how women can defend themselves.
• Deccan Video Workshop - India
  For over ten years Dalit women in Andhra Pradesh, India have made video to promote biodiversity, seed saving and healthy agricultural practices. This clip is from Deep Dish TV's series Waves of Change
• Healers
  This program explores varied approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease based upon simultaneously treating the mind, body and spirit.
• High Tech Baby Making
  This program examines how different reproductive issues are dealt with in both industrialized and developing countries.
• Invisible Women
  Three women refuse to remain invisible victims of HIV and defy notions of female complacency through art, community AIDS education, and AIDS activism.
• Iraqi Women Speak Out
  In March 2006, Code Pink invited eight Iraqi women to the U.S. to speak about their experiences under U.S. invasion and occupation. Two of the women had their entire families killed by U.S. troops. These two women were denied visas on the grounds they did not have sufficient family to guarantee they would return to Iraq.
• Judith Mayne Dials Through Daytime Soap Opera
  This is a Paper Tiger Program featuring Ohio State Professor and feminist cultural critic, Judith Mayne gives a critical reading of soapopera mags and subculture to discover their unmistakable allure.
• Labor Produces: Access to Solidarity
  Alternative news, documentary, talk show and music video formats provide an insightful and creative examination of issues involving exploitation and livelihood seldom confronted by the mainstream media.
• Left Forum 2012 ABORTION! Session
  ABORTION! An Urgent Part of Women's Liberation Differing Viewpoints on How to Win This Fight. Writers Eleanor Bader and Sunsara Taylor discuss the right wing's attack on women's right to birth control, the socially-created stigma towards abortion, and the general political backlash against women's autonomy.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious about Class Dynamics with Dr. Mary Gatta
  Dr. Mary Gatta of Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Left Forum 2012 Getting Serious About Class with Michael Zweig
  SUNY Professor Michael Zweig speaks at a Left Forum 2012 Panel on the intersection of race, class and gender in the U.S.
• Lesbian Health Heroes
  This program features five lesbians sharing their experiences, memories and personal histories concerning lesbian health care in San Diego, Calif.
• Lesbian Health News
  Personal vignettes on health care are featured in this short video from a lesbian perspective. Topics include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS and breast cancer.
• My Sin is Loving You
  As Emilia, a Latina housewife from Brooklyn, scurries around to complete her never-ending chores, she is swept into a soap opera fantasy.
• Phambili!
  Examines women's role in the South African economy.
• Sopa De Videos
  LAVA is a unique project involving student edited tapes produced in Latin America. The tapes explore interconnections between history, politics, and culture of North, South and Central America.
• Standing With The Women of Iraq
  Iraqi women's passionate statements of resistance to U.S. occupation are intercut with actions by Code Pink, Women in Black and others who have been at the forefront of protests against the war in the U.S.
• Suncookers
  Wood is the basic fuel for over 2.5 billion people in the world. Women in northeastern Kenya spend hours a day searching for wood resulting in deforestation, soil erosion and cooking smoke induced lung diseases. Margaret Owino has found a solution: solar cookers.
• That's Women's Work! TV By and About Women
  Exposes viewers to alternative images of women's lives and helps audiences see how insidiously sexist most network TV is.
• The 4th International Women's Day Video Festival
  This five part series explores various issues pertinent to women (work, family, etc.) It is also produced exclusively by women.
• The Art of Resistance
  Picasso responded to the fascist takeover of Spain in the 1930s with his famous painting Guernica. Artists today are responding the the U.S. occupation of Iraq and domestic repression with music, murals, street performance, comedy, cartoon animations and giant puppets. This program is also available with Spanish subtitles.
• Unbalancing the News
  These two programs look at the work of citizen activists who use community television to challenge the mainstream news enterprise.
• Waves of Change
  Community Media Trust and Interviews with Deccan Women We are proud to present two new clips from the Waves of Change series by Deep Dish TV! The Waves of Change Project is a series that celebrates Local Media that: -Resist Commercial Culture -Defend Human Rights -Protect Tradition -Connect Communities Waves of Change features clips, interviews, debates and images looking at: -Ideas for sustainability -Interactions with Political Power -The Dangerous lives of media activists -Creative communications options -Structures for consensus -And much more!
• Who Owns This Body?
  With high humor and a visceral insight, this examination of the sexuality and reproductive life of women takes us from Reubens to Sadie Benning.
• Who's In Control
  Does the responsibility for equal reproductive care begin with us? Ethical, moral and legal issues raised by three leading women of color in Milwaukee's health care professions.
• Women Behind Bars
  Two one hour programs: 1. We're Not Who You Think You Are: women in prison From One Prison: women in jail for killing their abusive husbands. 2. From one Prison, Part 2: women in jail for killing their abusive husbands Your Daughter's Here: young women at a detention center learn survival skills Have You Seen the Nueva Mujer Puertoriquena: Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
• Women of Substance and Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen
  "Woman of Substance" looks beyond the statistics to reveal the human and social problems encountered by pregnant and parenting addicts seeking treatment.In "Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen" by Educational Video Center students visit a park in New York City's infamous "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood.