Nonprint Media Services

The following are selected video titles in the collections of Nonprint Media Services that deal with gender issues and diversity.

1970, Half the People (60 min.)
HQ1421.A2 1998
Summary: Inspired by the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, women began to challenge discrimination on the basis of gender. Discusses such topics as: Betty Friedan, birth control, the Equal rights amendment of 1972, Roe vs Wade, women and Islam, and the U.N. Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995.

Acting Our Age : [A Film about Women Growing Old] (58 min.)
BF724.8.A38 1988
Summary: Introduces six women, aged 65 to 75, from diverse backgrounds, and through their stories of personal struggle and triumph, dispells the myths and challenges the stereotypes which have defined the image of elderly women in American culture. Includes discussions of sexuality, being alone, financial difficulties, and dealing with death.

And Still I Rise (29 min.)
HQ1587.A625 1993
Summary: Prominent black women comment on the history and experiences of the Afro-American slave woman in white European society. Focuses on the sexuality of black women as perceived by Western society, from the domesticity and servility of the slave era to the visual exploitation of stereotypes in modern media.

Bell Hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (60 min.)
P96.C76B4 1997
Summary: Bell hooks discusses why and how we should critically analyze popular culture, and examine the motives behind the depictions of women, minorities, and sexuality in mass media.

Beyond Killing Us Softly, the Strength to Resist: the Impact of Media Images on Women and Girls (34 min.)
HF5827.B49 2000
Summary: Examines the images of women in advertising and mass media and the effect they have on women and girls. Includes discussions with authorities in the fields of psychology of women and girls, eating disorders, gender studies, violence against women, and media literacy -- and focuses their ideas on practical solutions and the best tactics for recognizing and fighting these depictions.

Body, Soul, & Voice (27 min.)
PN1995.9.A78B63 1993
Contents: Open letter : grasp the bird's tail (15 min.) /by Brenda Joy Lem -- Picturing Oriental girls : a (re)educational videotape (12 min.) / by Valerie Soe.
Summary: Two short films look at issues facing Asian women. Picturing Oriental girls is a compendium of stereotypical portrayals of Asian women in film. In Open letter, a young woman writes her thoughts about sexual violence in a racist society through a letter to her lover in this fictional short.

Classroom Climate Workshops: Gender Equity (26 min.)
LC212.82.C53 1996
Goals of the workshop: to increase awareness of gender issues in the classroom, to explore teachers' attitudes, and to consider steps to improve the classroom climate.

Dreamworlds: Desire/sex/power in Rock Video (56 min.)
PN1992.8.M87D74 1990
Summary: Focuses on ways in which women are represented in music videos and how sex is used to market record, tapes, and CD's.

Dreamworlds 2: Desire/sex/power in Music Video (57 min.)
PN1992.8.M87D742 1995
Summary: A controversial film that MTV tried to ban. Shows scenes from over 165 music videos to illustrate how women are portrayed in male-created videos, examining such issues as masculinity, femininity, sex, and sex roles. Questions the impact that the portrayal of sex and sexual relations in mass media have on society and culture in our everyday life. Includes a scene of a brutal gang rape from the movie, The Accused.
"Warning: this video contains a very brutal and shocking scene of sexual violence. It is imperative that instructors view the tape beforehand, provide adequate warning to students, and ensure that they can leave the screening at any time, if they desire"--Cassette label.

Fair Play (57 min.)
LC213.2.F35 2000
Summary: Exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. Professionals in education scrutinize issues including equal computer access in the classroom, attitude barriers both in class and out, and efforts to develop software and Web sites that enfranchise female users rather than reinformce gender stereotypes. Originally broadcast in 1999 as a segment of the television program Digital Divide: Teachers, Technology, and the Classroom.

The Fairer Sex? (17 min.)
HQ 1237.5.U6F25 1994
Summary: In this segment of the television program Primetime Live, two people, a man and a woman, equipped with hidden cameras and microphones, are sent to Cincinnati, Ohio to see if bias based on gender still exists. Posing as new residents, they attempt to purchase cars and household items, and try to find jobs. In the process they uncover disturbing differences in the ways men and women are treated in American society.

Family (48 min.)
HQ1410.C426 1994 pt.2
Summary: Focuses on traditional roles for women and some notable American women instrumental in undermining those stereotypes.

Four Women (7 min.)
GV1783.F68 1990z
Summary: A dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone about four common stereotypes of Afro-American women. Originally produced in 1978.

Game Over (41 min.)
GV1469.3.G36 2000
Summary: This educational documentary addresses the questions of gender, race, and violence in video games. Asks: what are the messages of video games, why are the majority of game players men, do video games desensitize children to violence, and how are race, masculinity, and women represented?

In My Country: an International Perspective on Gender (85 min.)
GN479.65.I55 1993 v. 1-2
Contents: part. 1. Daily life (45 min.) -- part 2. Social issues (40 min.)
Summary: Respondents from thirteen different countries offer a personal perspective on life in their cultures with regard to gender. Countries represented include: Sweden, Taiwan, Mexico, Fiji, India, St. Vincent (Caribbean), Jerusalem, Lebanon, Zaire, England, China, El Salvador, and Japan.

Islam & Feminism (27 min.)
HQ1745.5.I75 1991
Summary: Examines the inequities in Pakistan's Islamic law, which does not distinguish among rape, adultery and fornication. Under this law, the testimony of two women is valued as equal to that of one man. A rape victim can be charged under Islamic law with having had extramarital sex. Examines these contradictions, and introduces efforts of women's organizations to battle the severe discrimination which Pakistani women must endure.

Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (30 min.)
HF5827.K55 1979
Summary: Explores the image of women presented by modern advertising. Illustrates with examples the use of women as sex objects.

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women (34 min.)
HF5827.K56 2000
Sequel to: Killing Us Softly (c1979) and Still Killing Us Softly (c1987).
Summary: Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on their images of themselves.

Lip (10 min.)
PN1995.9.N4L57 1999
Summary: A video collage of film footage illustrating Hollywood's primary depictions of black women as maids.

Man Oh Man (19 min.)
HQ1090.M36 1987
Summary: Using interviews with men, family films, and a pastiche of sounds and images, documents what it is like to grow up as a male in America today. Looks at what shapes a boy into a man and the roles and stereotypes men have to deal with in today's society.

Men, Women, and Language (58 min.)
PE1072.L364 1981
Summary: Men, women, and language discusses the sexist nature of the English language and suggests both advantages and drawbacks to modifying current practices. The written word examines the process of writing and the links between writing and thinking.

The Orientation Express (14 min.)
HQ1075.O75 1987
Summary: A fast-moving animated collage, using magazine photographs and product logos to satirize the role of women in popular culture. It re-exposes the horrors of sexual stereotyping.

Out in Suburbia (29 min.)
HQ75.6.U5O92 1988
Summary: Eleven lesbians discuss their lives, including marriage, motherhood, discrimination, stereotypes, and female roles.

The Power of Diversity (75 min.)
HF 5549.5.M3P68 1993,v.1-4
Contents: Module 1. Sexual harassment and gender discrimination ; Disabilities, hiring and promotion -- Module 2. Career development, minority issues ; Career development, reverse discrimination and age-ism -- Module 3. Performance appraisal ; Balance of work/family issues -- Module 4. Sexual orientation ; Career mobility, language. Summary: Facilitates the understanding of issues surrounding the managing of diversity.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving The Selves of Adolescent Girls (35 min.)
HQ798.R48 1998
Summary: Mary Pipher discusses the challenges facing today's teenagers, especially girls, as well as the role of media and popular culture in shaping their identities. Offers concrete ideas for girls, boys, families, teachers, and schools.

Sexual Stereotypes In Media: Superman and the Bride (35 min.)
P96.S5S49 1993
Summary: Examines the stereotypes of masculinity as represented on film and in television

Slaying the Dragon (58 min.)
PN1995.9.A78S53 1988
Summary: Describes racial and gender stereotyping of Asian women in U.S. motion pictures, television programs, commercials, newsreels and news broadcasts. Includes interviews with Asian historians, sociologists, actors and actresses and broadcasters.

Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness (31 min.)
BF697.5.B63S5 1995
Summary: Illustrated lecture which explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness. Discusses the impact this portrayal has on the self images of women and girls.

The smell of burning ants (22 min.)
HQ783.S53 1994
Summary: Raises gender issues and provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through the formative events of a boy's life, documents the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. Illustrates how boys are socialized by fear, power and shame.

The Southern Sex (29 min.)
HQ1438.S65S68 1992
Summary: Twelve Kentucky women discuss their hopes, joys, and regrets and reflect on the stereotypes and myth of the Southern woman.

Stale Roles and Tight Buns: Images of Men in Advertising (29 min.)
HF5827.S73
Summary: Presents a selection of images of men as found in consumer advertising. Raises questions concerning the definition of a "real man", his relationships, and the societal pressures involved.

Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (32 min.)
HF5827.S77
c1987.
Summary: Discusses the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on women and their images of themselves.

Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (85 min.)
P96.S5T68 1999
Summary: The program looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States in the late 20th century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution, such as rugged individualism and violence, come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.

Valuing Diversity (230 min.)
HF 5549.5.M5V35 1990v.1-7
Contents: pt. 1. Managing differences (30 min.) -- pt. 2. Diversity at work (29 min.) -- pt. 3. Communicating across cultures (30 min.) -- pt. 4. You make the difference (25 min.) -- pt. 5. Supervising differences (31 min.) -- pt. 6. Champions of diversity (27 min.) -- pt. 7. Profiles in change (58 min.). Summary: Describes how management must consider race, ethnicity, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, and culture in order to promote productive work relations and effective communication at the work place.

The Way Home (92 min.)
HQ1410.B87 1998
Summary: Over the course of eight months, 64 women come together to share their experiences of oppression through the lens of race. Separated into eight ethnic councils, Indigenous, African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Jewish, Latina, and Multiracial, the women explore their stories of identity, oppression, and resistance.

Women in the Active Voice (30 min.)
HQ1438.M3W66
(U-matic format)
Summary: Examines the story of the immigrant in our society through interviews with four Maryland women whose American roots span from seven to two-hundred years.