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Tag Archives: feminism
Daryn Strauss: Watching Women in Digital TV
It's 2010, and for the first time in history, a female filmmaker won an Oscar for Best Directing. Mind you, we've had four women total ever be nominated, so it's tough to win when you're not even in the race.
We look on TV and see an abundance of women: Desperate Housewives, The Closer, Damages, Weeds, I could go on. We look at the box office and we see films like Sex and the City and Twilight, which had the highest grossing opening for a film by a female director ever. Even when it comes to comics and heroes, we were given Buffy.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged buffy, Commentary, Damages, daryn strauss, digitalchicktv, downsized, felicia day, huffington post, Internet, Television, the guild, tv, twilight, Video, web, web tv, women, writers guild of america east Leave a comment
Got Docs: Latching On
"Latching On" produced by Women Make Movies, interviews several different women from around the world who describe how their respective cultures and locations respond to breast-feeding and the ongoing fight against the "taboo" of public breast-feeding in New York City.
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Europe Under the Crunch, Donna Edwards, Latching On, & Monique Harden
We've heard plenty about the recession in the U.S., but what about the rest of the world? Countries across Europe have faced budget crunches and conservative governments are using the crisis as an excuse to roll back the social safety net that most have enjoyed for decades.
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Lynn Harris & Dr. Elizabeth Miller: Reproductive Coercion
Bristol Palin's infamous pregnancy has gone from being an example of conservative values hypocrisy to a reality TV show. Though we hear about many women who aren't educated on contraception or mysteriously "forget" to take their birthcontrol, we rarely hear the otherside: men who hoard birthcontrol to deliberately impregnate their sexual partners.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged birth control, bristol palin, contraception, domestic violence, emergency contraception, gangs, interview, liz miller, lynn harris, pregnancies, reality tv, reproductive coercion, reproductive rights, Roundtable, sex, Teen Pregnancy, The Nation, uc davis, Video, women, women's issues Leave a comment
Got Docs: The Heretics
Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists.
REFRAKA: Giving Haitian Women A Voice
REFRAKA, a Creole acronym for Women’s Community Radio Network, was founded in Haiti in 2001 as a way to make women’s voices heard around the country. On January 12, it took on a new meaning as, like many other organizations in Haiti, it suffered from the earthquake. Nevertheless, REFRAKA has continued to not only restructure Haiti’s patriarchal society, but now integrates rural women’s opinions on the reconstruction process into the media.
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Amanda Marcotte: Olivia Munn, Sarah Palin, and Choice
What's up with all these arguments over feminism these days, anyway? The Daily Show and Gawker blog Jezebel have an argument over its representation of women; meanwhile, Sarah Palin is a feminist! Except when she's not! And the Atlantic has declared The End of Men. What's it all about?
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged abortion, amanda marcotte, choice, gawker, get opinionated, hanna rosin, Health, interview, jezebel, jon stewart, mama grizzlies, olivia munn, pandagon, reproductive rights, Sarah Palin, slate, the atlantic, The Daily Show, the end of men, Video, women Leave a comment
Steve Earle, Where Should the Birds Fly, and Daryn Strauss