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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 ...
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]
Town Bloody Hall is a 1979 documentary film of a panel debate between feminist advocates and activist Norman Mailer. [1] Filmed on April 30, 1971, in The Town Hall in New York City. Town Bloody Hall features a panel of feminist advocates for the women's liberation movement and Norman Mailer, author of The Prisoner of Sex (1971).
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 ...
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.
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 ...
Dolores Huerta, one of the most influential labor activists in the 20th century, attests that music was a crucial spark in America's largest farmworker movement. “So much of the music from that ...
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