Gender+in+Culture

 [|Sita: A Girl From Jambu] (RPI owns) This looks good on two registers -- showing a particular way women (and children) are disempowered (sex trafficing), and how people in different settings (here Nepal, through street theatre) are pushing back against this.   Water ([|RPI owns)] A Hindu widow in 1938 could throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, marry her husband's younger brother or live in poverty and self-denial from then on. When eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed, she is sent to a home in the Holy City of Varanasi where Hindu widows live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices, especially a young woman who has fallen in love with a follower of Gandhi. [|The Men Who Made Us Fat] [|The Men Who Made Us Thin]

Sociology through Documentary Film  ( @http://sociologythroughdocumentaryfilm.pbworks.com/w/page/17194965/FrontPage )

“ Tough Guise ” ( @http://shop.mediaed.org/tough-guise-p163.aspx ) really good job talking about race, gender and media representations.

On Anita Hill (and intersectionality) HBO http://www.alternet.org/media/hbos-confirmation-joe-bidens-darkest-day-vilification-anita-hill

Before Stonewall (library owns)

women in the US workplace (news brief) http://time.com/4283746/gender-gap-myths/?xid=newsletter-brief

[|Miss Representation]

//Audrie and Daisy//

//Trapped//

[|She's Beautiful When She's Angry] Resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. Excellent. Also for social movements.

@http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/she-wanted-to-do-her-research-he-wanted-to-talk-feelings.html?action=click&contentCollection=Americas&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

?[|Blue Jasmine]

[|The Invisible War] The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem—today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. 20% of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. Female soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims.

It's a Girl In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls(1) are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide”.

[|Abortion Clinic] (possibly show in conjunction with "After Tiller") This FRONTLINE documentary was first broadcast on PBS on April 18, 1983. It was filmed at a clinic in Chester, Pa., a small city which at that time had a 30% unemployment rate. The clinic was chosen because it was representative of abortion clinics in the United States. The clinic also offered individual counseling in which the reasons behind the decision are explored. During their five months at the clinic, the film's producers met with hundreds of women. The two whose abortions are shown in this film are single, white and young -- as are the majority of women who have had abortions in the United States over the past 30 years.

Divorce, Iranian Style Although Iranian religious law frowns on divorce, a man is allowed to claim the privilege without needing to show cause, provided he pays his ex-wife compensation. A woman, however, can only sue for divorce if she can prove that her husband is sterile or mad, or if he agrees to let her out of their marriage contract. In the last case, the compensation becomes the bargaining chip: the man will sometimes give his wife her freedom if he doesn't have to pay.

[|Milk] + award-winning documentary, //[|The Times of Harvey Milk]//, ACLU History of LGBQ political fight

[|Brokeback Mountain]

Maybe (on women and environmental activism) [|Erin Brockovitch]

Iron Ladies of Liberia ([|RPI owns]) After fourteen years of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President, following a hotly contested election in which she won 59% of the vote. She is the first elected female head of state in Africa. Since taking office, she has appointed other women to leadership positions in all areas of government, including the Police Chief and the ministers of Justice, Commerce, Finance and Gender. Can the first female Liberian president, backed by other powerful women, bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country?