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The Free Voice of Egypt
directed by Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015; produced by Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015 (Brighton, England: Espresso TV, 2015), 53 mins
Nawal El Saadawi is well-known the world over as a writer and feminist. She is one of the most important champions of the women's movement in her Egyptian homeland and indeed in the whole of the Arab world. In almost fifty novels, plays, and short stories, her writing opposes violence against women, sexual oppress...
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directed by Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015; produced by Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015 (Brighton, England: Espresso TV, 2015), 53 mins
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Nawal El Saadawi is well-known the world over as a writer and feminist. She is one of the most important champions of the women's movement in her Egyptian homeland and indeed in the whole of the Arab world. In almost fifty novels, plays, and short stories, her writing opposes violence against women, sexual oppression, and poverty. Nawal El Saadawi has often been touted as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature and in America she ha...
Nawal El Saadawi is well-known the world over as a writer and feminist. She is one of the most important champions of the women's movement in her Egyptian homeland and indeed in the whole of the Arab world. In almost fifty novels, plays, and short stories, her writing opposes violence against women, sexual oppression, and poverty. Nawal El Saadawi has often been touted as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature and in America she has been decorated as a "Great Mind of the 21st Century". But Nawal El Saadawi is also a psychiatric doctor. Filled to the brim with books, travel souvenirs, and awards from around the globe, her small flat on the 26th floor of a modest apartment building also serves as a clinic for the psychiatrist who is now past her eightieth birthday. A refuge which offers a feeling of security, high above Cairo's roofs. Here, the private becomes political. The documentary charts the most important stages in the life of this extraordinary woman – a woman who risked her life for her convictions more than once, a woman who never gave up her mission despite death threats from fundamentalists and unspeakable conditions at the women's prison under President Sadat. Nawal El Saadawi's biography encompasses more than eight decades of contemporary Egyptian history as experienced from a female perspective. She is thrown back to her childhood when we leave the intimate setting of her "writer's refuge" above the roofs of the metropolis and are taken out to the village in which Nawal was born, where she too had to endure the terrible experience of genital mutilation at first hand. We find images of the past in images of the present, people from yesteryear in the here and now. We weave an autobiographic first person narrative into the documentary observations and real encounters of our female protagonist. Original quotations from Nawal El Saadawi's autobiographical works do not only highlight her own striking biography that has outlived so many social and political ruptures. They indicate also that it is not just a matter of one woman's life. This is the reality of life as experienced by millions of women under masculine authority – from King Farouk to Nasser, from Sadat and Mubarak to Mohammed Morsi, and finally the current military regime. From this dramaturgical interplay between past and present there emerges through the film a feminine view of the dramatic situation in present-day Egypt which shows in a vivid and historically contextualized manner, the non-negotiable demands of Egypt's women – and that irrespective of what the current political ruler is called.
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Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015
Author / Creator
Konstanze Burkard, fl. 2007-2015
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Espresso TV
Person Discussed
Nawal El Saadawi, 1931-
Topic / Theme
Gender roles, Social activism and activists, Women's movement
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 Espresso TV
Subject
Gender roles, Social activism and activists, Women's movement
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Newsreel, Newsreel 22, Up Against the Wall, Ms. America (Newsreel #22)
in Newsreel, Newsreel 22 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1968), 6 mins
"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave wom...
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in Newsreel, Newsreel 22 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1968), 6 mins
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"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
1968
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Series
Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Beauty pageants, Women's movement, Social activism and activists, Women's Liberation Movement, 1964-1980, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1968 by Third World Newsreel
Subject
Beauty pageants, Women's movement, Social activism and activists
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To Empower Women
produced by Margot Smith, fl. 1997 (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 1997), 28 mins
From the largest gathering of women in history emerges images of an awe-inspiring global movement of women working to improve their communities. The Beijing Conference produced the strongest consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever endorsed by governments. To Empower Women is a moving tribute t...
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produced by Margot Smith, fl. 1997 (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 1997), 28 mins
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From the largest gathering of women in history emerges images of an awe-inspiring global movement of women working to improve their communities. The Beijing Conference produced the strongest consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever endorsed by governments. To Empower Women is a moving tribute to the multitude of actions women everywhere are taking right now.
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Margot Smith, fl. 1997, Bella S. Abzug, 1920-1998
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
The Video Project
Speaker / Narrator
Bella S. Abzug, 1920-1998
Topic / Theme
Association and organization conferences, Women's rights, Women's movement, Women
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Speciality Studios, The Video Project
Subject
Association and organization conferences, Women's rights, Women's movement, Women
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The Women Pioneers (2013)
directed by Michal Aviad, 1955-; produced by Edna Kowarsky and Elinor Kowarsky, Eden Productions (Tel-Aviv District: Cinephil, 2013), 51 mins
A hundred years ago, women pioneers came from Europe to Palestine, to realize the dream of creating a new woman in a new world, a woman who is as independent as men are. The women pioneers have left diaries and texts which tell their stories. Their writings shed new light on the archival footage of the time. The W...
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directed by Michal Aviad, 1955-; produced by Edna Kowarsky and Elinor Kowarsky, Eden Productions (Tel-Aviv District: Cinephil, 2013), 51 mins
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A hundred years ago, women pioneers came from Europe to Palestine, to realize the dream of creating a new woman in a new world, a woman who is as independent as men are. The women pioneers have left diaries and texts which tell their stories. Their writings shed new light on the archival footage of the time. The Women/Pioneers uncovers the course of their passionate battles and painful disappointments, until they were defeated, and gave up their...
A hundred years ago, women pioneers came from Europe to Palestine, to realize the dream of creating a new woman in a new world, a woman who is as independent as men are. The women pioneers have left diaries and texts which tell their stories. Their writings shed new light on the archival footage of the time. The Women/Pioneers uncovers the course of their passionate battles and painful disappointments, until they were defeated, and gave up their own liberation for the national struggle.
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Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Edna Kowarsky, Elinor Kowarsky, Eden Productions, Jonathan Bar-Giora, 1962-, Rotem Zissman-Cohen, 1982-, Sivan Levy, 1987-, Veronica Kedar, 1984-, Maya Maron, 1980-, Noa Barkai, 1972-
Author / Creator
Michal Aviad, 1955-, Era Lapid, 1948-2018
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Cinephil
Speaker / Narrator
Rotem Zissman-Cohen, 1982-, Sivan Levy, 1987-, Veronica Kedar, 1984-, Maya Maron, 1980-, Noa Barkai, 1972-
Person Discussed
Nechamka Avronin, Eva Tabenkin, Sara Neumann, Yocheved Bat-Rachel, Lilia Basevitch
Topic / Theme
Women's rights, Women in workforce, Women's movement, Communes, Jews
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Film Platform
Subject
Women's rights, Women in workforce, Women's movement, Communes
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Women's Constructive Collective
(Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 1989), 5 mins
Documentary on the Women's Constructive Collective in Jamaica.
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(Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 1989), 5 mins
Description
Documentary on the Women's Constructive Collective in Jamaica.
Date Written / Recorded
1989
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
1989
Publisher
Banyan Archive
Topic / Theme
Labor and unions, Women's movement
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1989. Used with permission of the Banyan Archive.
Subject
Labor and unions, Women's movement
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Afghanistan Through Women's Eyes
directed by Velcrow Ripper, 1963-; produced by ScaredSacred Films (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 2001), 23 mins
Afghanistan through Women's Eyes offers an intimate portrait of Afghanistan's silenced women as we see the conflict and history of Afghanistan through their eyes. The film visits the secret schools, orphanages and clinics of RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, a feminist group that has been working...
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directed by Velcrow Ripper, 1963-; produced by ScaredSacred Films (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 2001), 23 mins
Description
Afghanistan through Women's Eyes offers an intimate portrait of Afghanistan's silenced women as we see the conflict and history of Afghanistan through their eyes. The film visits the secret schools, orphanages and clinics of RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, a feminist group that has been working both inside and outside of Afghanistan for many years, struggling for women's rights. Their revolution is through ideas, education and...
Afghanistan through Women's Eyes offers an intimate portrait of Afghanistan's silenced women as we see the conflict and history of Afghanistan through their eyes. The film visits the secret schools, orphanages and clinics of RAWA, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, a feminist group that has been working both inside and outside of Afghanistan for many years, struggling for women's rights. Their revolution is through ideas, education and health, and they will not let their voices go unheard.
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Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
ScaredSacred Films
Author / Creator
Velcrow Ripper, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
The Video Project
Topic / Theme
Orphanages, Fundamentalism, War, Economic conditions, Women's shelters, Women's movement, Women's rights, Taliban Rule, Afghanistan, 1994-2001, United States Intervention in Afghanistan, December 22, 2001-, United Nations Intervention in Afghanistan, October 7, 2001-, Afghans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Speciality Studios, The Video Project
Subject
Orphanages, Fundamentalism, War, Economic conditions, Women's shelters, Women's movement, Women's rights
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Newsreel, Newsreel 55, The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
produced by Third World Newsreel, in Newsreel, Newsreel 55 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1971), 42 mins
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and class Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which...
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produced by Third World Newsreel, in Newsreel, Newsreel 55 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1971), 42 mins
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Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and class Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which the women's movement grew, the women talk about the daily realities of their lives as wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, some...
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and class Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which the women's movement grew, the women talk about the daily realities of their lives as wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesitancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it. THE WOMAN'S FILM was made entirely by women in San Francisco Newsreel. It was a collective effort between the women behind the camera and those in front of it. The script itself wsa written from preliminary interviews with the women in the film. Their participation, their criticism and approval were sought at various stages of production.
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Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Third World Newsreel
Date Published / Released
1971
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Series
Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Women's movement, Women's Liberation Movement, 1964-1980, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1971 by Third World Newsreel
Subject
Women's movement
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Interview with Peggy Antrobus
produced by Banyan Archive; interview by Tony Hall, fl. 1991 (Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 1990), 11 mins
Tony Hall interviews Peggy Antrobus of Women and Development (WAND).
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produced by Banyan Archive; interview by Tony Hall, fl. 1991 (Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 1990), 11 mins
Description
Tony Hall interviews Peggy Antrobus of Women and Development (WAND).
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Banyan Archive
Author / Creator
Tony Hall, fl. 1991
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Banyan Archive
Person Discussed
Peggy Antrobus, 1934-
Topic / Theme
Feminism, Women's movement
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1990. Used with permission of the Banyan Archive.
Subject
Feminism, Women's movement
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Work for the Colored Women of the South
written by Estelle Penney, fl. 1894, Emma Mae Garette Young and Margaret Murray Washington, 1865-1925 (Tuskegee, AL: Normal School Press, 1894), 17 page(s)
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written by Estelle Penney, fl. 1894, Emma Mae Garette Young and Margaret Murray Washington, 1865-1925 (Tuskegee, AL: Normal School Press, 1894), 17 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Estelle Penney, fl. 1894, Emma Mae Garette Young, Margaret Murray Washington, 1865-1925
Date Published / Released
1894
Publisher
Normal School Press
Person Discussed
Estelle Penney, fl. 1894, Halle T. Johnson, 1864-1901
Topic / Theme
Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Home management, Family, Political and Human Rights, Women and Development, Equal Rights for Women, Economic Development
Subject
Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Home management, Family
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Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Home management, Family
Subject:
Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Home management, Family, Children
Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Home management, Family, Children
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Women's movement, Suffragists, Women's rights, Associations and organizations, Family, Apparel, Fashion
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