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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.

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The Women's Studies Collection includes the following titles:

After the Rape  - imageAfter the Rape 

After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.

Women Make Movies | 2008 | 58 minutes
Birth on the Border - imageBirth on the Border

Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes
Birthright: A War Story - imageBirthright: A War Story

This urgent documentary examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 100 minutes | College, Adults
Black Feminist - imageBlack Feminist

BLACK FEMINIST explores the double-edged sword of racial and gender oppression that Black Women face in America.

Women Make Movies | 2019 | 53 minutes
A Boy Named Sue  - imageA Boy Named Sue 

Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles Theo's transformation from a woman to a man over the course of six years.

Women Make Movies | 2000 | 56 minutes
Brave Miss World  - imageBrave Miss World 

Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was abducted and raped in Milan, Italy two months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she's ready to talk about it, and to encourage others to speak out.

Women Make Movies | 2013 | 88 minutes
They Call Me Muslim - imageThey Call Me Muslim

THEY CALL ME MUSLIM highlights how women still must struggle for the right to control their own bodies – not only under theocratic regimes, but also in secular, democratic countries where increasing discrimination against Muslims and sexism intersect.

Women Make Movies | 2006 | 27 minutes | College, Adults
The Celine Archive - imageThe Celine Archive

In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community in Northern California. This is an attempt to uncover the real story, revealing Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced, as well as the silences that haunt Filipino-American communities to this day.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 69 minutes | College, Adults
Choice Thoughts: Reflections on the Birth Control War - imageChoice Thoughts: Reflections on the Birth Control War

A look at 100 years of the fight for birth control and legalized abortion.

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 10 minutes
A Crushing Love - imageA Crushing Love

A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera - and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.

Women Make Movies | 2009 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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