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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:

Calling the Ghosts - imageCalling the Ghosts

CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 63 minutes | College, Adults
God Sleeps in Rwanda  - imageGod Sleeps in Rwanda 

Academy Award-Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit of five courageous women as they rebuild their lives, redefine women’s roles in Rwandan society and bring hope to a wounded nation.

Women Make Movies | 2004 | 28 minutes | College, Adults
Golden Gate Girls - imageGolden Gate Girls

In GOLDEN GATE GIRLS author and professor S. Louisa Wei tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930’s.

Women Make Movies | 2014 | 90 minutes
Heather Booth: Changing the World - imageHeather Booth: Changing the World

Renowned organizer and activist Heather Booth began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Through her life and work, this inspiring film explores many of the pivotal moments in progressive movements that altered our history over the last fifty years.

Women Make Movies | 2016 | 62 minutes | College, Adults
Hollywood Harems - imageHollywood Harems

Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 80s, HOLLYWOOD HAREMS explores the organization of gender, race, and sexuality in Hollywood's portrayal of the exotic east an indiscriminate fusion of things Arab, Persian, Chinese and Indian.

Women Make Movies | 1999 | 24 minutes | College, Adults
Invoking Justice - imageInvoking Justice

In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves.

Women Make Movies | 2011 | 85 minutes | College, Adults
Jane: An Abortion Service - imageJane: An Abortion Service

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 58 minutes | College, Adults
Living Thinkers - imageLiving Thinkers

Examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.

Women Make Movies | 2013 | 75 minutes | College, Adults
Las Marthas - imageLas Marthas

Unlike any other, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is part of a lucrative month-long festival honoring George Washington’s birthday. LAS MARTHAS follows two young women as they prepare for this elaborate rite of passage.

Women Make Movies | 2013 | 69 minutes | College, Adults
Middle of Everywhere: The Abortion Debate from America's Heartland - imageMiddle of Everywhere: The Abortion Debate from America's Heartland

Explores the abortion debate in South Dakota, with both sides claiming compassion for women and the same desire to stop the need for abortion.

Women Make Movies | 2008 | 52 minutes | College, Adults

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