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Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing...
2) Tokyo idols
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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日本語
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This festival favorite documentary gets at the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity. This ever growing phenom is told through Rio, a bona fide "Tokyo Idol" who takes us on her journey to fame. We meet her "brothers", a group of adult middle aged male super fans who devote their lives to following her--in the virtual world and in real life. With her provocative look into the Japanese...
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"Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
4) A Courtship
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Amy Kohn’s fascinating documentary offers a peek into the practice of Christian courtship, wherein a woman hands over the responsibility of finding a husband to her parents and the will of God. Such is the path for Kelly, who after growing up happily in a secular family is prompted to alter the course of her own life after her parents’ divorce. Enter Ron and Dawn Wright, a Christian couple who offer to serve as Kelly’s adopted spiritual-family...
5) Big Dream
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This film follows the intimate stories of seven young women who are breaking barriers and overcoming personal challenges to follow their passion in science, math, computing & engineering (STEM) fields. Through video diaries and verite moments, each of these girls defy the stereotype of what it means to be an over achieving woman in the fields of technology. From small town Iowa to the busy streets of the Middle East, Big Dream immerses viewers in...
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Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Breast cancer kills. But are blanket screening programmes that screen all women, rather than those with symptoms, doing more harm than good? Controversially, studies into the effects of these programmes show they do not reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer. ..Healthy women are receiving unnecessary diagnoses of pre-cancerous conditions that are unlikely to develop and many are harmed by unnecessary treatment. We follow four women around the...
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Frameline
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Recipient of the Frameline30 Audience Award for Best Documentary and of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant, The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma: how to reconcile their gender identity with a widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of...
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Hybrid Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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As one of the many women who faced fertility challenges at a young age, Dr. Jennifer Mercier shares a safer alternative to the suggested controversial procedure, in vitro fertilization (IVF).. FERTILITY exposes hidden truths about IVF, as well as an insightful new method that is safer and healthier for women who are trying to conceive. IVF has become increasingly popular and glamorized by the media. But the dangers of IVF are seldom revealed. For...
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One Step Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The award-winning documentary film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.. They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts,...
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Political Animals
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Political Animals celebrates the legendary civil rights victories of the first four openly gay elected California state politicians – who were all women: Carole Migden, Sheila Kuehl, Jackie Goldberg, and Christine Kehoe. Documenting the tough struggles they endured, the film celebrates their pioneering success in the fight for Equality, and the sweet victories these unforgettable women created to pave the way for lasting and significant social change..."Political...
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Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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From the producing team that won an Academy Award forBorn Into Brothelscomes Who Does She Think She Is?, a film that examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art. This gorgeously photographed film follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world...From Hawaii's Big Island to the suburbs...
12) Having It All
Publisher
Marymoor Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Three women set out to live their dreams of balancing career, marriage, and children. After two trying years of unanticipated trade-offs and painful sacrifices, each finds herself with a changed life and a changed idea of what "having it all"really means. From the painful exercise of putting an infant into childcare, to the heartbreak and defeat of divorce, this film offers an intimate and honest view of some routinely overlooked, yet ubiquitously...
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Nadia Marie and Co
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Am I: Too African to be American or Too American to be African? is a documentary film that explores the complex identity formations of young African women living in America and West Africa who identify bi-culturally. It specifically looks at how they wrestle with concepts of race, complexion, gender, and heritage among other issues.. Cultural identity is always complex, especially for those who straddle the lines of two worlds. So when you're an African...
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Deep Dish TV
Pub. Date
2005.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Part two of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq. This program asks what the U.S. invasion and occupation has meant for the women of Iraq? In this program their passionate statements of resistance 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..
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Eye Goddess Films
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This is a film about the controversial movement of women seeking to be ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church. On June 3, 2008, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the modern name for The Holy Office of the Inquisition, issued a sweeping order of excommunication for "the crime of attempting sacred ordination of a woman."Pink Smoke Over the Vatican chronicles the events that led up to this severe punishment and tells...
16) Personal Gold
Publisher
Hybrid Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Reed Albergotti (Wall Street Journal) is calling the film 'Miracle meets Moneyball' describing the behind-the-scenes experience of four underdog women cyclists who become America's hope for a medal at the 2012 London Olympics after the men's team is banned during the Lance Armstrong drug scandal. ..In this post-Armstrong period, the underfunded women turn to volunteers, including their husbands to patch together an innovative approach with dozens...
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EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Hot Flash chronicles the history of the legendary blues band Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women. With their potent combination of sassy lyrics and fierce playing styles, the trio of Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola, and Andra Faye have entertained audiences for over twenty-five years. For the first time, Saffire's complete story is told. The trio overcame personal struggles and industry stereotypes to emerge as one of the most well-known blues bands playing...
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Line Street Productions
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The film tells the story of French philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943)-- a woman Albert Camus described as "the only great spirit of our time." On her quest to understand Simone Weil, filmmaker Julia Haslett confronts profound questions of moral responsibility both within her own family and the larger world. From the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War to anti-war protests in Washington DC, from intimate exchanges between...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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From the producers of "Diary Of A Cheating Woman," this is the documentary that men don't want you to watch. "Diary Of A Cheating Man" is a tell-all documentary film digging for answers to the age-old question: why do men cheat? A dark-humored, blunt, celebrity-filled film that will make you rethink the way you look at men. Stars Tyga, Yung Berg, Don Benjamin and Craig Wayans.
20) Annie Pootoogook
Publisher
Site Media
Pub. Date
2006.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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A first for an Inuit artist, Cape Dorset artist Annie Pootoogook prepares for her 2006 solo show at Toronto's Power Plant Centre for Contemporary Art...Focused on Annie and her work, the film parallels Annie’s own creative process of making and doing. Images of her drawings anchor the film in her art. The transitions, challenges and risks of her life are reflected in her drawings. The shamans, myths and land-based adventures prevalent in the last...
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