Media Collection Guide / George Mason University Libraries
WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES: Gender Studies
Gender Communication Gender Identities Gender Roles Media Representation

Gender Communication

Communication and the sexes.
The role of gender in communication and how gender differences influence the ways people communication.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF637.C45 C63 1991
Gender and communication.
Explores why males and females have so much trouble communicating and suggests how men and women can communicate successfully in spite of their differences.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HM258 .G46 1994
He said, she said gender, language, communication.
Live video presentation of Deborah Tannen's seminal contributions to the understanding of gender, language, and communication.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P96.S48 H4 2001
Invisible rules men, women and teams.
Dr. Pat Heim in her presentation sorts out some invisible rules of men and women. Explains how they have radically different ideas of what it means to be a team player, how meeting hehaviors and non-verbal communication are different between men and women. All these happen because men and women grow up in different cultures, learning different lessons about what it means to be a leader and what it means to be a team player. She provides the basis for better understanding, communication and teamwork.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .I48 1996
Men & women talking together.
Presents two of the most popular and exciting people at the forefront of men's and women's issues, talking to each other about gender and styles. Each brings an informed perspective on how men and women approach each other and conversation itself. Bly and Tannen agree that it is crucial to describe both the differences and similarities, so that men and women can respect each other, and in the process, present a model of how that is done.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF637.C45 M4 1993
Sexism in language.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P120.S48 S43
Sexism in language thief of honor, shaper of lies : a lecture.
Lynn T. Lovdal explores sexism in both the syntax and semantics of language and shows how it is often unintentional or even unrecognized. She explores four key areas: "female" words that are dependent on a "male" version, words that are more positive for men than for women, words for women that carry negative sexual connotations, and "neutral" words that become inferior when applied to women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P120.S48 S4 1995
Gender Identities

Body politics.
Academy award winner, Susan Sarandon, hosts and narrates this documentary series in which women from all walks of life around the world speak out to reveal their hearts and minds.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1206 .B63 1997
Gender the enduring paradox.
Explores how gender affects how we see ourselves, how others see us, and how gender shapes our human identity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF692.2 .G45 1996
Gender nation x.
This video explores whether gender and sexual identity are innate or socially manufactured. Using a series of humorous skits, personal reflections, and interviews with transgendered individuals, the program's youth producers raise several thought-provoking questions.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .G46453 1998
Gender, self and other.
Discusses how families transmit transmit culture and values and the development of self awareness by gender, race, and emotions in children.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF720.S44 G4 1992
Intersexuality redefining sex.
Each year 65,000 newborns display intersexuality, a condition in which physical aspects of both sexes are present. This program examines the medical ethics of surgically altering the genitals to "normalize" children who "don't look right"--a practice which is performed on 5 infants a day in the U.S. Considering intersexuality as an emergency, doctors select a gender, usually female. But early genital plastic surgery damages sensitivity, produces severely scarred genitals, and gives a message to the child that he or she is unwanted "as is." Cheryl Chase, founder of the Intersex Society of North America, advocates a non-interventionist approach: no surgery except in true medical emergencies. This film illustrates the case of a mother who consented to sex reassignment surgeries for her baby Kyle (later Kelli). Now six years old and severely scarred, Kelli tends to identify as a male, and her mother feels severe remorse for what happened.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC883 .I68 2000
Men and women differences.
A program on the social and psychological differences between men and women and the possible basis for it. Based upon the opinion of scientists, biology, familial and the social environment is discussed. Also included is whether nature or culture makes the sexes so different.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF692.2 .M46 1995
Men, women & the sex difference.
Looks at the differences between the sexes and whether they are the result of biology or environment.
Johnson Center Videotapes
QP81.5 .B69 1995
Monuments are for men, waffles are for women exploring gender permanence & impermanence.
Explores the concept of symbolic gender construction. A class at Ohio University provide discussion about the impermanence of work done by women and the permanence of work done by men in the United States. Categories examined are U.S. currency, holidays, last names, shopping, sports, language, vocations, and buildings.
HD6060.65.U5 M66 2000
Multiple genders mind and body in conflict.
Discusses questions regarding gender identity and addresses the moral implications of multisexual orientation.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .M858 1998
Myths that maim with Maureen O'Hara.
This video explores the social construction of gender identities and gender violence, tracing the stories, myths and images of our culture and showing the millenia-old patterns of dominance & subordination that lead to violence and abuse.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .M85 1992
Remarkable case of John Joan.
Baby John was the victim of an accident during circumcision. John was raised as a girl, Joan, until adolescence.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC560.G45 R46 1997
Self identity and sex role development.
Discusses sex role development, self identity, how we define ourselves - male or female & how we characterize ourselves - racially & ethnically.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .S36 1993
Teen sexuality in a culture of confusion.
Profiles eight young people of diverse race, ethnicity, socio-economic level, geographic locale, and sexual orientation. They share their personal experiences and outlooks on a wide range of issues, including body-image, gender identity, peer pressure, family, religion and their decisions about how and when to act on their own sexuality. Two of the eight talk about living with AIDS.
Prince William Campus Videotapes
HQ27 .T448 2000
XXXY.
A portrait of two individuals born with ambiguous genitalia that calls into question the medical practice of gender assignment surgery of intersex infants and children.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC883 .X99 2000
Gender Identities
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Identities

After Stonewall.
The sequel to Before Stonewall chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the roots at Stonewall to the end of the century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.8.U5 A38 1999
Ballot measure 9.
Documentary investigation of events surrounding the 1992 campaign for Oregon's anti-gay ballot initiative.
Johnson Center Videotapes
KFO2811.5.H64 B35 1996
Before Stonewall the making of a gay and lesbian community.
A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.5.U6 B44
Best of out & out on Tuesday : highlights from Channel 4's lesbian & gay magazine series.
Channel 4's Out is the world's only networked television series for lesbians and gay men. Since its debut in February 1989 (as Out on Tuesday), the show has been consistently stylish, informed and audacious. This collection brings together some of the best segments-serious and funny-including a snappy catalogue of gay hairstyles, a New Zealand drag diary, a short history of gay comic books, and a breakneck tour of Hollywood's secret pleasures. Plus scenes from the 1991 Pride march set to Ravel's Boleo, and 'Khush', a stunning discovery of the lives of South Asian lesbians and gay men.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1992.77 .O88 B48
The blank point what is transsexualism?
Modern medical procedures now permit changes of gender through surgery. Sometimes equated with "Transvestism," "Transsexualism" is often both confusing and misunderstood. This film attempts to explain this phenomenon whereby some individuals elect to undergo surgery in order to live in their "preferred" gender instead of that into which they were born. Included are inviews with several people who have underwent the procedures, which includes both physical alteration of the body and psychological counseling. They are quite candid in the discussion of their expectations and experiences.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ77.9 .B53 1992
Bloodsisters.
Frank interviews with lesbians who practice sadomasochims. Includes footage of S/M play scenes and actual events.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ79 .B66 1999
The Brandon Teena story.
Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a woman. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among residents of a town in America's heartland.
Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6773.54.N43 M88 1999b
Bright eyes.
This production explores attitudes toward homosexuality in three parts: one, the early scientific view of homosexuality as a disease; two, the pre-World War II view (especially in Germany) of homosexuality as a crime; and three, current attitudes, complicated by the spread of AIDS.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .B75
Coming out under fire.
Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation. Includes archival footage and photographs.
Johnson Center Videotapes
D769.2 .C66 1995
Damned if you don't.
This portrait of a lesbian nun combines narrative and experimental techniques, as well as footage from "Black Narcissus," an earlier film with a similar theme.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.5 .D35
Dear Jesse.
Gay North Carolina filmmaker Tim Kirkman's open letter to his closed-minded senator, Jesse Helms.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76 .D43 1999
Desire sexuality in Germany 1910-1945.
Examines the discovery of homosexuality by the medical and psychoanalytical professions in the 1890's and subsequent movements in Germany during the early years of this century. Uses historical and archival films of the period to chronicle events leading to the imprisonment of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Survivors tell how they managed when Hitler was in power.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.G4 D4 1992
Dirty laundry a history of heroes.
A history of Chinese who immigrated to Canada and of gay Chinese Canadians.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.A78 D57
Family values.
"This intensely personal film documents lesbian videomaker Pam Walton's attempt to reconcile with her long estranged father. It is also her search for what "family" means to her"--Container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.4.W3 A3 1996
Fated to be queer.
Four gay Asian American men speak about coming to terms with their identity as gay Asian Americans and of the attitudes of family members and friends towards them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.A78 F38
The films of Barbara Hammer.
Of originally two separate videorecordings depicting lesbianism, the first is a collecetion of images showing lesbianism in its various forms; the second is a study of the lesbian relationship of two trapeze artists.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.5 .H36
Florence and Robin.
This documentary follows the lives of Florence Spalding and Robin Ruotolo, a lesbian couple in San Francisco, as they make the decision to become biological parents through artificial insemination. Follows their journey towards parenthood in a society which exhibits polarized attitudes towards lesbianism. Also meets the children of gay couples and talks to pupils in a nursery school where one in six has gay parents.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.53 .F66 1995
From a secret place America's families cope with the coming out process of gay and lesbian youth.
Young lesbians, gays, and their families describe their own coming out experiences clearly and poignantly.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .F76 1993
Gay couples nature of a relationship.
Dr. Pepper Schwartz documents the lives of one gay and one lesbian couple. She uses a case-study approach that explores their views on handling conflict, work and communication, the influence of their families and friends, and how gender and society influence personal relationships.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.15 .G39 1997.
Green on Thursdays.
Interviews with gays and lesbians from Chicago about their experiences with hate crimes targeted at gays and lesbians. Focuses on the shooting of Ron Cayot and looks at what is being done to counter gay bashing and why the community feels it is not sufficient.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6250.3.U5 G74 1993
Hide and seek.
An exploration into lesbian adolescence in the 1960's.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.3 .H54 1996
It's elementary talking about gay issues in school.
An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to their students about lesbian and gay issues. Students are asked to consider issues related to homosexuality at six elementary and middle schools. Presents footage of classroom activities and discussions with students exploring questions and issues presented to them by teachers and guest lecturers.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Prince William Campus Videotapes
LC192.6 .I875 1997
Jodie.
Discusses how actress Jodie Foster and her on-screen roles have been viewed as a lesbian role model.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.26 .J63 1996
Juggling gender politics, sex and identity.
Features Jennifer Miller, juggler and director of Circus Amok. Miller speaks of her life and struggle as a lesbian woman who happens to have a moustache and beard. Includes scenes of circus performances, a gay rights parade, Miller interacting with friends, family, and strangers.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .J83 1992
Khush.
A series of interviews with Asian and Indian gays.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .P37 1991
Last call at Maud's.
A look at the world's longest running lesbian bar, Maud's in San Francisco. Film interweaves rare archive film of the gay bar scene in the 1940's, the vice raids of the 1950's, the gay counter culture of the 1960's and "coming out" in the 1970's up until the bar closed its doors in 1989.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.6.U5 L38
Live to tell the first gay and lesbian prom in America.
Chronicles the lives of the students of the EAGLES Center, an alternative high school in Los Angeles for gay and lesbian teens who, due to persecution, are unable to function in the regular school system. Shows their efforts to organize a citywide prom for over 200 gay and lesbian high school students in Los Angeles County and the first gay and lesbian prom in America.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .L58 1995
Looking for a space : lesbians & gay men in Cuba = Buscando un espacio : los homosexuales en Cuba.
A documentary film examining the treatment of lesbians and gay men during the early years of the Cuban Revolution and perspectives of current residents of Cuba on questions of political ideology and sexual identity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .L58 1995
March in April.
Follows a group of gays as they prepare for the April 1993 march in Washington, D.C. and talk about their lives.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.8.U5 M359 1993
A marriage diary of a lesbian.
"In 1920, British historians broke the code in Anne Lister's 18th- and early 19th-century journal, and were shocked to discover within its 6,600 pages the first pre-twentieth century written account of a sexual relationship between women. In this dramatization, Anne (quoting directly from the journal) tells the story of her protracted relationship with a local married woman, with whom Anne, too, considered herself married"--Container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.4.L57 M37 1997
Metamorphosis man into woman.
Documentary about one individual's quest for a sexual identity change.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ77.9 .M474 1989
Nieh tzu Outcasts.
Discovered during sex by a nightwatchman, young Ah-Ching is beaten and expelled from home by his violent abusive father. Rescued from the gutter by Yang, he is introduced to three other teenage boys--all abandoned by their families because they were gay. Yang struggles to create a loving family unit with them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .O87
"Non, je ne regrette rien" No regret.
Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double social stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RA644.A25 N6
On being gay a conversation with Brian McNaught.
Author, counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught dispels myths about homosexuality. He talks about growing up gay in a straight world and discusses such topics as Bible-based bigotry, stereotypes, transvestism, transexualism, and AIDS.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.8.M3 O6 1986
Out for a change addressing homophobia in women's sports.
Addresses the issues of women in sports, homophobia in sports, the common assumption that all female athletes and female coaches are lesbians and the discrimination attached to those assumptions.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GV708.8 .O88 1994
Out of the past the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in America.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.8.U5 O97 1997
Outlaw.
Interview with Leslie Feinberg, author of: Stone butch blues, a novel. Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.D6 O8 1994
Paris is burning.
Documentary about the young homosexual men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
PN1997 .P365
Paul Monette the brink of summer's end.
A biographical documentary which was shot over three and a half years, explores Paul's life and work from his seemingly idyllic New England boyhood, and his closeted adolescence to his development into a successful writer, committed lover and activist, until his death from AIDS in February, 1995.
Johnson Center Videotapes
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Pink triangles a study of prejudice against lesbians and gay men.
Takes a look at the nature of discrimination against lesbians and gay men and challenges some of society's attitudes toward homosexuality. Also examines historical and contemporary patterns of racial, religious, political, and sexual persecution.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.H55 P56
The queen.
Frank Simon documents the thriving drag subculture in the United States in 1967, two years before the Stonewall Riots kicked off the modern gay liberation movement. The Queen captures the playfulness, humor and backbiting competition and glamour of the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .Q37
The Question of equality.
Using archival footage and interviews, this video set documents the hard-fought gains and heartbreaking losses in the struggle for gay and lesbian equality.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.8.U5 Q48 1995
The Return of Sarah's daughters.
Three Jewish women, Myriam Klotz, Rus Burdman, and Marcia Jarmel, discuss their relationship to Judaism.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BM729.W6 R38 1997
Rock Hudson's home movies.
Using clips from Rock Hudson's films and employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the filmmaker invents an eclectic form of biography in which he explores the illusory nature of Hudson's screen image and society's attitudes towards Hudson as a homosexual.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN2287.H75 R6 1994
Scout's honor.
Documentary examining the Boy Scouts of America policy against gays in the organization. Focuses on Steve Cozza, boy scout and activist against the policy, and relates the stories of others removed from the Boy Scout organization for being gay or for working to have the policy eliminated.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HS3313 .S36 2001
Silverlake life the view from here.
Presents the story of Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, a gay couple who both have AIDS. Documents their life together and the process of living with AIDS.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC607.A26 S55 1993
Since Stonewall.
Ten short films (two using animation) reflecting the feelings, fears, humor, artistry, and changing realities of gays and the gay life in America.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.U5 S56 1992
Speaking for ourselves portraits of gay and lesbian youth.
"Issues pertaining to identity, sexuality, family and self acceptance strike a common chord for most young people regardless of their affectional or sexual orientation. In SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES, the viewing audience meets a wide range of young people who were courageous enough to share their life experiences on camera"--Study guide.
Prince William Campus Videotapes
HQ76.3.U5 S64 1994
Straight for the money interviews with queer sex workers.
A documentary offering a unique perspective on sex work from the lesbian point of view. Through interviews, erotica, and archival footage the videomaker explores the lives of lesbian strippers, prostitutes and exotic dancers, including author and activist Annie Sprinkle. The women share their perspectives on feminism, sexual empowerment, desire and cold hard cash which they have gained working in this predominantly heterosexual and male dominated industry.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.3 .S86 1994
Straight from the heart.
Parents of gay children tell of their struggles with homophobia.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.25 .S77 1994
Sunflowers.
An exploration of the sexual identity of a group of gay men in a rural Philippine village, who perform in drag as The Sunflowers during the town's annual Christian festival. The Sunflowers discuss their childhoods, coming out issues, and their relationships with "straight" men in the community.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.P4 S86 1997
The Times of Harvey Milk.
A portrait of the life and career of Harvey Milk, a charismatic grass-roots activist, and one of the first avowed homosexuals elected to political office. Through television news footage and interviews, follows him from his early days as a Castro Street businessman to his murder, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. Relates these events to the ongoing movement for gay rights in the United States.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.8.U5 T56
Tongues untied.
Derogatory accusations, judgments, and jokes in our culture are met head-on by this video about black, male, and gay identity. Poetry, personal testimony, and drama unite to oppose the homophobia and racism that attempt to split a person into opposing loyalties.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
E185.625 .T66 1989
The Videos of Sadie Benning.
Eighteen-years-old Sadie Benning recorded thoughts and images of her nascent lesbianism with the help of a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 V53
We are family.
Documents three unconventional families of homosexual parents. Includes interviews with mental health professionals who discuss child development and research study results.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ777.8 .W4
We were there a celebration of gay pride in our bicentennial year : San Francisco and Los Angeles gay pride celebrations, 1976.
Highlights from the gay pride celebrations in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1976, followed by a trailer for Rocco's feature film One adventure.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3.U5 W4 1994
Wild life.
A video portrait of two gay 15-year old Chicano youths, blending documentary style interviews with fantasy segments in which the boys act out their "wild" day in Los Angeles.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 W56
Word is out stories of some of our lives.
This film is a series of interviews with gays and lesbians.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ76.3 .U5 W6
You don't know Dick.
Provides honest and riveting portraits of six men who once were women. Through their commentaries and the experiences of partners, friends, and family emerges an unforgettable story of self-discovery.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ77.7 .Y55 1997
Gender Identities
Masculinity

Father, son and holy war.
A film examining the connection between religion, violence and male identity in India today and exploring the possibility that a key to the psychology of violence against "the enemy" is male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of "manhood".
Johnson Center Videotapes
HN690.Z9 V5F38
Man oh man growing up male in America.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1090.3 .M36
Man to man exploring the myths of manhood.
Video focuses on the problems of being a man, and growing up male, in the 1990s.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1090.3 .M357 1998
Men's lives.
Uses a series of candid interviews in order to show what American boys and men believe about the American concept of masculinity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1090.3 .M46 1994
Secret lives of boys.
This ABC News 20/20 program explores why boys tend to repress their feelings. Using a real counseling session, experts demonstrate how to help boys express their feelings before they begin to act them out at school and at home in antisocial behavior.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF724.3.S4 S43 1999
Gender Roles

Africa's children.
Explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval: Christine, a Maasai who escaped an arranged marriage so she could study law; Dekha, bought up in a rigidly patriarchal Muslim town, who aspires to be a doctor; Anastasia, who works on her family's farm while yearning to become a Catholic nun; and Mboone, who dreams of exchanging her affluent urban lifestyle for a career of service in the U.N., to help inprove the lives of women all over the world. Female circumcision, polygyny, AIDS, reproductive choice, equal access to education, and other issues are discussed with candor.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1240.5.K4 A47 2001
Americas.
This intimate look at contemporary Latin America examines issues confronting the entire region by focusing on individual communities. See volume 5; In women's hands: the changing roles of women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
F1408 .A617
Battle for the minds.
This documentary explores the tensions within the Southern Baptist Convention, in regard to the role of women in the church and the ordination of women in particular, by tracing changes in the leadership of the S.B.C. and also the "conservative takeover" of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BX6462.8 .B38
Behind the veil--nuns.
Addresses the concern of Catholic nuns existing within a paternalistic church hierarchy. Looks to christianity's past to review women's religious status and shows the role played by modern nuns.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BX4120 .B49 1991
Behind the veil Afghan women under fundamentalism.
"... This gripping program describes the massive human rights abuses that have been escalating since the withdrawal of the Soviet forces, as seen through the eyes of women who have survived years of rampant gender and religious intolerance..."
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1735.6 .B44 2001
Beyond the veil are Iranian women rebelling?
In this program, a female reporter dons the hijab and goes undercover to find out how Iranian women feel about the government-enforced dress code and about their diminished role in Iranian society.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1170 .B49 1997
The changing roles of women in Micronesia.
A look at how the traditional roles of women, once very important, have changed. As men have joined the workforce, women have taken over some traditional male roles. With better education, women are also beginnig to expect to participate in the workforce and in government. Special emphasis on Chuuk and Yap outer islands, but with application across Micronesia.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DU500 .I86 pt.2
Chicana.
Employs Mexican murals, rare photographs, prints, and documentary footage to trace the traditional and the emerging roles of Mexican/Chicanas from pre-Columbian times to the present, showing how women have made important contributions as workers, mothers, activists, educators, leaders, and in numerous other ways, despite their generally oppressed status in the Latino culture.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.M5 C54
The child brides.
"In many parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, young girls are often engaged by the age of eight, and leave their homes to join their husbands by twelve. In many cases, the younger the girl, the more her family receives in the form of a dowry. This program travels to the most rural and poverty-stricken regions of Ethiopia to expose the common practice of child brides and the consequences for the young girls who often give birth before they are out of childhood."--Container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ18.E75 C4 1999
Community.
Women and men in the Satkhira district of southwestern Bangladesh show their progress in creating economic opportunity while addressing the issue of women's rights.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1745.6 .C64 1996
Covered.
This documentary examines the reasons behind the increased veiling occurring in Egypt. Intimate interviews set against a backdrop of compelling footage reveal the complex motives of women choosing to cover up.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1793 .C684 1995
Crimes of honour.
This is the story of women in Islamic culture who are killed by their male relatives because they are thought to have dishonored their families by engaging in unacceptable relationhips with men or running away.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6250.4.W65 C75 1998
Cross cultural comparisons.
Examines male and female roles in cultures outside of the United States. The first lecture focuses on marriage customs in India, footbinding in China, and female circumcision in Islamic societies. The second lecture focuses on China, Sweden, and the former Soviet Union as examples of societies that are working towards equality for women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .C76 1995
Daughters of the Golden Bengal women in the struggle against poverty.
Depicts the growing movement of women in Bangladesh who, with the assistance of aid societies, run profitable cottage industries in their villages, often risking severe reprisals as they defy repressive social customs and religious doctrines in order to become financial contributors to their families and villages.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1240.5.B5 D39 1999
Dear Lisa.
Thirteen women describe incidents from their lives revealing their socialization as women and the roles society expects women to play.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1206 .D42 1990
Dochters van de Nijl Daughters of the Nile.
Examines the status of women in Egypt.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1793 .D63 1992
Dream girls.
A documentary film illustrating the ways that the all-female Takarazuka Music School and its annual musical revue reflect Japanese puritanism and sexual politics.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GN635.J2 D74 1994
The Eighteenth century woman.
Looks at an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The eighteenth century woman, a vast collection of costumes, accessories, and objets d'art that reveal the unique ways in which fashionable eighteenth-century women made their presence felt in the society, art, and politics of their time.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NX652.W6 E44
Fire in the ocean the women of Andros Island.
This film is a sensitive and respectful portrait of four generations of women who describe their artistry, their methods of child rearing and their perspective on the importance of "family", and who have an undying religious faith and sense of hope for the future. The work and role of the Church and of extended family are critical to an understanding of the nation of the Bahamas, which will soon celebrate its first thirty years as an independent country.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1503 .F57 2002
Gender communication an introduction.
A lecture on gender, sex and sex role and the effects of rigid sex role identity in society.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1075 .G46 1996
Goddess remembered.
This documentary examines pre-Christian goddess-worshipping religions. Incorporating the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, art historian Merlin Stone, and scholars Jean Bolen, Charlene Spretnak and Starhawk, it offers insights into these ancient cultures and explores the contemporary women's spirituality movement inspired by them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BL473.5 .G62 1999
Half the kingdom.
American, Canadian and Israeli women talk about their struggle to redefine their roles in Jewish life and attempt to incorporate feminist values into a their religion.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1172 .H34 1989
Half the sky.
We learn about the role of Chinese women in a society still dominated by men.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1237.5.C55 H35 1997
Hispanics the changing role of women.
In this program, several prominent Latina women, including author Isabel Allende, discuss their changing role within the context of Hispanic family values, male machismo, and the traditional role of females as the center of family and community life. Also examines the issue from the male perspective.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.S75 H58 1998
The history of sex.
Explores the history of sex and sexual practices around the world from ancient civilizations through the 20th century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.S75 H58 1998
Home is struggle : historias paralelas.
Film explores the lives of women who have immigrated to the United States from different Latin American countries for very different reasons, economic and political. In sharing their stories they present an absorbing picture of the construction of Latina identity and the immigrant experience.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1410 .H66 1991.
Home.
An East Indian American woman, who immigrated to the United States as a college student, returns to India ten years later to work through the conflicts she experienced with her family and to come to an understanding and acceptance of her Indian identity and heritage.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1742 .H66
Hsiao hsi Small happiness : women of a Chinese village.
A documentary which examines the social conditions for Chinese women today and in the past, with specific focus on the village of Long Bow. Inhabitants reveal the strides that have been made for women's equality, despite the seeming oppression when observed from a Western viewpoint.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1768 .S6 1990
I, doll the unauthorized biography of America's 11 1/2" sweetheart.
A history and examination of the American and international social phenomenon of the Barbie doll, a toy, idol, role model and fashion model reflecting standards of appearance and lifestyle for girls and women since the 1950s.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.D6 I136
I have a problem, madam.
A fascinating glimpse into a society where women are only now beginning to be heard in a traditionally male culture. Run by female lawyers, FIDA-Uganda has set up several legal aid centers for women in domestic trouble. With the help of a weekly radio show, the centers fill daily with women waiting to tell their stories. FIDA lawyers attempt to reconcile the women and their men in face to face meetings, even if it means traveling to isolated villages. The attitudes of both men and women are beginning to change, but this slow process sometimes leads to conflicts between offical and traditional law.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1797 .I2 1995
In my country an international perspective on gender.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GN479.65 .I51 1993
Iraqi women voices from exile.
Documentary about Iraqi women during the 20th century and how their lives changed with the various political regimes from British colonial rule through the rule of Saddam Husayn.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1735 .I73 1994
The long-haired warriors.
All about the major role played by Vietnamese women in the Vietnamese Conflict and the historical precedents for same. In this video, Vietnamese women tell of their war experiences during the Vietnamese Conflict; their active participation, their involvement, the tortures they endured, the effects of the Vietnamese Conflict to this day, etc.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DS559.8.W6 L65 1998
Mama Benz an African market woman.
The colorful markets of Africa are often dominated by strong older women. They control price and determine who can buy their goods. These women rule the market and are treated with deference. Thanks to their business acumen, they have amassed a great deal of wealth. These women are affectionately referred to as Mama Benz. Because each one has as her trademark a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. This film focuses on one woman who presides over the cloth market in Lome, Togo. he is lavishly dressed matron with a fully-staffed mansion who proudly travels the rutted dirt roads in her limousine. Everyday she takes her accustomed place in the stall, surrounded by gloriously colored textiles, and haggles with her customers. The other market women look up to her. Perhaps one day they too will attain her success and become a Mama Benz.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1811.5 .M36 1992
My American girls a Dominican story.
Dominicans are New York's largest and fastest growing immigrant group. This film chronicles the lives of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to New York City through one family with three daughters. Each daughter is traveling down a different road as their mother, Sandra, struggles to do right by each of them, as they grapple with being a bicultural family while negotiating the hurdles of their adopted city.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.D6 M9 2000
Nicaragua.
Examines life in Nicaragua through the eyes of its women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number.
Nice girls-- films by and about women.
A collection of award-winning short films--animation, comedy, documentary, drama and experimental--which look into the lives and through the lenses of women today.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.W6 N523 1992
Paradise bent boys will be girls in Samoa.
An exploration of the Samoan fa`afafine, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ77 .P37 1999
The passion of remembrance.
Attempts to break down notions of a homogeneous black community and reflects instead the diversity of the black expeience of Britain in the 1980's. Examines issues of gender, power and sexuality.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DA125.A1 P38
The Pinks and the blues.
Probes the subtle ways in which parents and teachers condition babies and young children to accept traditional sex roles.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ784.S45 P5
The polygamists.
This absorbing documentary travels to the town of Mant, Utah, to follow several of the 450 families there who practice plural marriage. In the name of religion--the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, a splinter group from the Mormon religion--women live side-by-side with other female partners in a male-dominated household and devote themselves to bearing children. Self-appointed prophet and leader of the group, Jim Harmston, who has eight wives, claims that an angelic visitation instructed him to take extra wives. Several wives discuss their attitudes toward their subservient, plural roles, and the benefits of polygamous relationships. This is a nonjudgemental view of a controversial topic.--Cf. container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BT707.5 .P65 1997
Rate it X.
A frank, humorous, and provocative documentary about what men really think of women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1090 .R37 1986
The Return of Sarah's daughters.
Three Jewish women, Myriam Klotz, Rus Burdman, and Marcia Jarmel, discuss their relationship to Judaism.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BM729.W6 R38 1997
The right to choose.
Part 8 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Nibret is eleven -- and they're marrying her off to a man she's never met. Forced marriage isn't unusual in northern Ethiopia -- it helps to cement ties between families and establish land rights. This program reports on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local cultures -- and calls for reproductive health care and primary education for women and looks at widespread discrimination and violence against women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
JZ1318 .L54 2000 pt.8
Sacrifice.
Each year thousands of girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in brothels in Thailand where they are held for years in debt bondage. The trafficking of Burmese girls is a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination have displaced thousands of families leaving them with no means of livelihood. This film, through interviews with the girls, examines the social, cultural and economic forces at work in the trafficking of these Burmese girls.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ232.7.A5 S22 1998
Salt of the earth.
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Mexican American zinc miners in New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the wives take up the battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. Produced independently by blacklisted filmmakers.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .S258
Selbe one among many.
Due to economic constraints, women in Senegal are often left with the sole responsibility of raising their families. Depiction of one such woman's struggles under these trying circumstances.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1814.5 .S4 1982
Sex and marriage.
This program examines marriage and sex customs in different societies around the world.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GT2690 .S4 1994
Shackled women.
Program assesses second- and third-world abuses of women's rights by the male establishment and examines how female collaboration sometimes contributes to their perpetuation.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1236 .S45 1999
Socio-historical gender roles 19th century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1154 .S63 1995
Socio-historical gender roles 20th century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1154 .S634 1995
Socio-historical gender roles early.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1127 .S63 1995
Socio-historical gender roles medieval.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1143 .S63 1995
The Status of Latina women.
Program looks at the differences betwen the U.S. Latina and her Latin American and American counterparts. Examines how Latino men regard successful Latina women, and the myths and mystique of machismo.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.S75 S7 1992
Talking history.
Five women--Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Hmong--talk about their lives as Asian Americans and about their social, educational, and work experiences.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.O6 T354 1984
To be a mother in Latin America.
Examines life in Latin America through the eyes of its women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
Toying with their future.
The toy industry creates and markets war toys emphasizing power and violence for boys and dolls emphasizing romance and beauty for girls, as demonstrated at a toy fair in Montreal.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ784.T68
Trokosi (wife of the Gods).
Documents a system of providing young girls as servants/slaves to priests among the Ewe people of southeastern Ghana. These "inmates" (or wives of Gods) must serve for an indefinite time as workers and wives to atone for family crimes that can date back to the 17th century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1816 .T76 1994
Under one sky-- Arab women in North America talk about the hijab.
Presents the history of Arab womanhood, from the days of early colonial missions to the post-Gulf War era. Informed, articulate Arab women living in North America describe the ideologies behind the veil and tear away the labels imposed by both East and West.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1784 .U534 2001
Weaving the future.
Details the plight of Guatemalan women caught up in civil unrest and poverty and what moves are being made to improve their lives.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1477 .W418
Women and history.
Jeffrey Mishlove and Gerda Lerner talk about her books, The creation of partriarchy, and The creation of feminist consciousness. Part 1 explores the values of patriarchy and patriarchal society as created by human beings in the millenia before the Christian era. Part 2 examines the ways women found to transcend the partriarchal doctrine of the subordination of women, before the 20th century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1121 .W58 1994
Women and Islam.
Leila Ahmed argues the case for revision of the widely-held views of the Islamic world about the role of women, using examples from history and the role played by women in the contemporary society. She explains the origin of the veil, and discusses the issue of marriage and women's rights within marriage.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BP163 .I76 Tape 6
Women as role models.
The women featured in this inspiring series speak candidly and from the heart about their lives, their successes and their roles as women. Includes sections on politics, science, business, sports, entertainment, and the military.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1150 .W52 1995
Women from the lake of scented souls.
Xiang Ersao is the driving force behind her family's successful sesame oil mill. But despite her prosperity, Xiang is profoundly unhappy. As society dictates, she must endure the drunken and abusive behavior of her husband, to whom she was sold at the age of seven and married at thirteen. When her mentally ill son asks for a wife, Xiang perpetuates her own destiny by "buying" a poor, reluctant peasant girl, Huanhuan, for him. Will Xiang recognize the parallel between her own life and Huanhuan's before it is too late?
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .W651 1995
Women managing men.
Explores issues surrounding sex roles in the workplace, emphasizing the challenges, problems and benefits of women managing men. Three female corporate managers discuss difficulties they encountered with male subordinates and ways in which they handled these problems.
Johnson Center Videotapes
D6054.3 .W6 1990
The women of Hizbollah.
This film is a portrait of two Lebanese muslim women, Zeinab and Khadije, who are activists in the Hezbollah. It examines the personal, social and political factors that undergird their commitment, presents the activities of the Islamic political party and examines its place in Beirut society and in Lebanese politics.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DS119.76 .W66 2000
Women world leaders fifteen great politicians tell their stories.
Presents fifteen female political figures in the highest echelons of power. Describes their experiences, values, accomplishments, joys, tragedies and mistakes.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1390 .W66
Media Representation
Documentaries

The celluloid closet.
Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.H55 C46 1996
Dreamworlds desire/sex/power in rock video.
The author suggests that the image of women in rock videos reflects a male adolescent dreamworld. In this world, all women are nymphomaniacs who constantly invite sex with any available male. The author examines the factors which produce this image and questions the effect which many hours of viewing this dreamworld might have on male behavior in the real world. Consists primarily of narration over clips from rock videos.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
HQ1154 .D74 1990
Dreamworlds 2 desire/sex/power in music video.
A controversial video that MTV tried to ban. Portrays the impact that sex and violence in media have on society and culture in our everyday life. Shows scenes from over 165 music videos to show how the media portrays masculinity, femininity, sex, and sex roles. Includes a scene of a brutal gang rape from the movie, The accused.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
HQ1154 .D75 1995 (copy 1)
PN1992.8.M87 D7 1995 (copy 2)
Dry kisses only.
Examines subplots or subtexts in supposed heterosexual classic Hollywood films as well as in contemporary depictions of lesbian sexuality on film.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.L48 D71
The famine within.
Influenced by the coercive powers of consumerism and the mass media, North American women have come to judge their bodies according to the unrealistic standards of our culture's beauty ideal. The ultra-lean silhouette of the fashion mannequin and the manipulated image of the magazine model have become not only physical standards, but also symbols of competence and success. In pursuit of this simulated, body-centered ideal, many women are laying waste to their energies and self-esteem, and going on to develop the serious eating disorders bulimia and anorexia.
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF697.5.B63 F36
Hollywood harems.
This documentary examines Hollywood stereotypes of the East, with particular attention paid to the Middle East and the depiction of women of the East. Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 80s, the filmmaker argues these fantasies have worked both to shape and reinforce often derogative assumptions about the peoples of the East while at the same time reinscribing the moral, spiritual, and cultural supremacy of the Anglo-European West.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.W6 H669 1999
Images in media.
The pictures in our heads that define who we are and help us neatly categorize others are increasingly shaped by the newspaper, magazine, film, and TV images that bombard our senses. To convey a message quickly, these images often rely on stereotypes and primal reflexes that can foster in an audience an inordinate fear of violence, racial and ethnic prejudices, diminished self-worth, and even eating disorders, as young women attempt to mimic the look of high-fashion models. This program is a behind-the-scenes look at the media's image-makers, from the first photographers to today's Madison Avenue wizards, and asks some disturbing questions about the self-selected few who hold a distorted mirror up to our society"--Container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P90 .I4 1998
L is for the way you look.
An exploration of lesbian history and the women who have served as role models and a discussion of how media images of lesbians affect the construction of identity and how lesbians are written in and out of history.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 L15
Off the straight & narrow lesbians, gays, bisexuals & television.
Off the Straight & Narrow casts a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these new representations. Off the Straight & Narrow challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1992.8.T3 O44 1998
Picturing oriental girls.
Picturing Oriental Girls is a compendium of stereotypical portrayals of Asian women in American film and television. In Open Letter, an Asian woman comments upon racially motivated violence and her fears of being an Asian woman in a world of anti-Asian hostilities.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1154 .P53
The Real Ellen story.
Examines the controversial television Sitcom "Ellen" in which a major character reveals that she is a lesbian. Includes interviews with actors and ABC/Disney executives.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1992.77.E6 R43 1998
The role of women in the movies.
A history of the treatment of women on the screen. Features sequence from the films of Lillan Gish, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Pola Negri, Louis Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Mae West.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.W6 R66 1979
Running mate gender and politics in the editorial cartoons.
Analyzes gender imagery in editorial cartoons from the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign, when Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated for Vice-President by a major party. Also includes interviews with Ms. Ferraro and cartoonists Signe Wilkinson, Tom Toles, and M.G. Lord.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1236.5.U6 R86 1992
Sexual stereotypes in media superman and the bride.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P96.S5 S49 1993
Sexual stereotypes in the media.
Experts analyze how newspapers, television, advertising, and other media can sway what we do, determine what we buy, and even alter how we view our sexuality.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P96.S5 S5 2001
Slaying the dragon.
Describes racial and gender stereotyping of Asian women in U.S. motion pictures as well as other filmic media. Includes interviews with actresses and other Asian American women who describe their experiences of such stereotyping.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Stale roles and tight buns images of men in advertising.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HF5822 .S835
Tough guise : violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity.
Tough Guise is the first program to look systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the US 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 (rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
Johnson Center Videotapes
BF692.5 .T68 1999
Ways of seeing.
Consists of four programs, each presenting the classical arts in different contemporary terms. Considers the ways paintings are distorted by the mass media that transmits them, examines the ways in which women are portrayed in art, discusses paintings as material possessions, and shows how paintings are used in advertising.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1142 .W39
Women seen on television.
Blends narration, clips of broadcast footage (advertising and program content) and rock music into a fast-paced, critical look at television's stereotypical view of women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1992.8.W65 W66
Writing desire.
"A video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women's bodies from the third world to the first world. Although under-age Philippine 'pen pals' and post-Soviet mail-order brides have been part of the transnational exchange of sex in the post-colonial and post-Cold War marketplace of desire before the digital age, the Internet has accelerated these transactions."--http://www.wmm.com.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ801 .W75 2001
Media Representation
Feature Films

All about my mother.
Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .A5057 2000
As is.
After a gay New York writer contracts AIDS, it affects him, his lovers, friends and family.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .A815
Before night falls.
A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
PQ7390.A72 Z46313 2001
Boys don't cry.
The story of the life of Teena Brandon (Swank), a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena.
Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .B6885 2000
The Boys in the Band.
A heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual gathering at a birthday party, and tension builds as tempers fray.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .B6887 1984
Claire of the moon.
Two women meet and share a cabin at a women's writer retreat. One is the author of a controversial study on sexual behavior and the other is a satirist, and while they maintain their philosophical differences they can't deny their attraction to each other.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .C55
Flow.
Quentin Lee combines five short films into his first feature that he describes as "an allegory of the fictive history of gay Asian films." It opens with an introduction to a 22-year-old queer Asian filmmaker who is looking for love while trying to finish his latest work, a character not unlike Lee himself. What follows is a mix of autobiography and fiction, including a parody of a safer sex public announcement, a knife-wielding drag queen, a film noir about a young man that kills his mother on Christmas Day, a surrealistic vampire tale and a story of romance on the college campus. Lee successfully fuses together fact with fantasy, a diversity of genre, and queer and Asian identities in this celebratory work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 F569 1997
Gay classics.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.H55 G39
Girlfriends.
A collection of four "lesbian-friendly" short features exploring a variety of topics.Watching her sleep: a young woman's imagination runs wild after spotting a drop-dead gorgeous woman in a supermarket check-out line. Little women in transit takes a ride with a young girl in the backseat of the family stationwagonas she writes the Louisa May Alcott-inspired Girls galore. Playing the part: a college girl tries to come out to her parents, but her angst-ridden efforts keep ending in futility. Barmelita Tropicana: an East Village Latino performance artist winds up in jail with some other girls from a riot: mayhem ensues!
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.5 .G52 1995
Go fish a Can I Watch.
Kia, a professor, speculates with her students about who might be a lesbian in American society. She is involved with Evy and they would like Kia's roommate, Max, to meet a woman. Kia sets her up with Ely, an ex-student of hers who is in the process of terminating a long-distance relationship. They finally go out on a date and everyone insists on getting all the details.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .G5387 2000
Happy together (Chun guang zha xie).
Yiu Fai and Po Wing left Hong Kong for a great waterfall in South America, but in the end are stuck on the streets of Buenos Aires. Yiu Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po Wing's life shatters continuality in contrast.
Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
PN1997 .H366 1999
The Lost language of cranes.
Philip, a London college student is falling in love with a headstrong American - a young man named Elliot. The relationship makes him determined to tell his reserved English parents, an academicain and a book editor, of his homosexuality. But his revelation exposes a foundation of hidden secrets and repressed passions that threatens to destroy the family - even as it promises to set each of its members free.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .L6845
The love thang trilogy.
Three sensual vignettes portraying aspects of Asian Pacific lesbian lifestyles and concerns.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.6.U5 L69
Les roseaux sauvages Wild reeds.
A poignant coming-of-age story set in southwest France in 1962. Sensitive young François is uncertain of his sexuality as he finds himself more attracted to his classmate Serge than to his platonic girlfriend Maïté. An older boy, Henri, is drawn into the circle, further complicating relationships. Through their passage into adulthood, the four experience a series of sexual and political conflicts as they explore the mysteries of the human heart.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .W5572
Lysistrata Zervoulakos.
Lysistrata is an Athenian woman disgusted by the way men have ruined the country with their endless wars. Rallying the other women, she proposes they impose an embargo on sexual relations with their men as long as the war lasts. This "sex strike," reluctantly agreed to and not always enthusiastically observed, finally brings the men to their knees.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .L94
Ma vie en rose My life in pink.
With six-year-old certainty, Ludovic believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. Instead of the miraculous, Ludo finds rejection, isolation and guilt as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
The sex of the stars.
The struggles for sexual identity of a 12-year-old girl and her transsexual father.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .S49 1994
She don't fade.
Shae Clark, a black lesbian played by director Dunye, expounds upon her sexuality and her approach to women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ75.5 .S54 1991
She must be seeing things.
A lesbian lawyer fears that her lover, a filmmaker, may turn to heterosexuality as the result of her latest film project about a 17th century nun intent on leaving her convent.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .S54
Toc storee.
The first in a series by the artist addressing Asian/Pacific Islander gay experience, this multilevel narrative explores sexuality, identity, tradition and personal recollection through gay Asian story-telling.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 T63 1993
Torch song trilogy.
Set in the 1970s, chronicles the relationships of a gay, Jewish New Yorker with his bisexual lover, with the fashion model he believes is his one true love, and with his overbearing mother.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .T666
Urinal.
A motley crew of dead, gay artists: Russian filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, and American poet Langston Hughes, are mysteriously summoned to the garden of two noted dead Toronto sculptors, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. A tape recorder spells out their "Impossible Mission": they must research the policing of washroom sex in Ontario and propose solutions. Of their group, Dorian Grey is mandated to infiltrate the police force as a undercover "gay" agent.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .U75
War on lesbians.
A parody about lesbianism.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.E96 W375 1992

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