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[7] [8] It describes how the women's movement linked to other movements in the United States such as the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the New Left. [9] Also featured in the documentary are the authors of the landmark feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves and ex-members of the underground abortion organization the Jane ...
Equality is a short film by American filmmaker, Al Sutton, MD, [1] a documentary under the genre of human rights, social issues, history and news.The film contains rare footage [2] of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, [3] where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in New York City to show support for the feminist movement and to ...
I Am Somebody is a 1970 short political documentary by Madeline Anderson about black hospital workers on strike in Charleston, South Carolina. This was the first half-hour documentary film by an African-American woman in the film industry union. [1] This film is one of the first to link black women and the fight for civil rights. [2]
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Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
For American women, our careless amnesia is plain poison and Lee's film is a healthy portion of the antidote". Adding that the history of second-wave feminism is "beautifully laid out in Lee's film". [13] The film has also been reviewed by Ms. magazine blog, [4] Psychology Today blog, [14] and by the University of Texas' Mercury. [7]
Throughout the nine episodes (or “innings'' as they are referred to in the film), Burns shows how the sport was intrinsically linked to other moments in U.S. history including the Civil Rights ...
A new documentary from first-time director Sara Wolitzky, titled “Not Done: Women Remaking America,” looks back on the last few years of advancements in the women’s movement. Premiering on ...