Media Collection Guide / George Mason University Libraries
WOMEN'S STUDIES: Violence
Child Abuse Domestic Violence General Genital Mutilation Rape Sexual Harassment

Child Abuse

Child abuse an abusive parent's story.
"A true and factual account" of the experiences and rehabilitation of an abusive parent, portrayed by Michaeleen O'Neil of the Source Theater Co., Washington, D.C.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV713 .C5
Child abuse.
Dr. Salk talks with two children who are victims of child abuse and their mother's, who are now seeking help. They discuss their anger, frustrations and what abuse does to them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV741 .C4
The Cycle of violence revisited six years later.
Dr. Widom presents her research findings on what happens to abused and neglected children when they grow up and the extent to which they become violent.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626.52 .C92 1995
Prince William Campus Videotapes
HV6626.52 .C92 1995
The Lynchburg story.
This film charts the history of the American eugenics program under which 80,000 inmates in state institutions have been compulsorily sterilized. In Virginia between 1905 and 1972, several thousand children deemed by the state as unfit to reproduce were taken from their families and forced to live in the Lynchburg Colony. Victims recall their experiences of beatings, solitary confinement and other abuses.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ755.5.U5 L96 1993
Prevalence and consequences of child victimization preliminary results from the national survey of adolescents.
Examines preliminary survey data that offers an illustration of the frequency and types of offenses that children face.
Prince William Campus Videotapes
HV713 .P74 1995
Technology and pornography.
This program presents the views of Jeffrey Douglas, of the Free Speech Coalition; former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl, of the University of Washington School of Law; Susan Kreston, of the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse; and the ACLU's Nadine Strossen on the prosecutorial status of computer-generated sexual imagery as defined under the Child Pornography Prevention Act.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
They hit me.
Addresses how to recognize and deal with different kinds of child abuse.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626.5 .T44 2000
The trouble with Evan.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC488.5 .T76 1994
Domestic Violence

Abused women who fought back : the Framingham Eight.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC552.P67 A38 1994.
Battered women fighting back.
When a woman kills a man who beats her, is it murder? Or is it justice? This program examines the legality of when, ever, a victim of domestic violence is justified in killing her abuser. The Jane Abbott and Linda Logan cases assess the courtroom admissibility of evidence of battering, while the high-profile Lorena Bobbitt case and others raise the question of whether the plea of battered woman syndrome can be manipulated into a license to maim--or kill.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .B375 2000
Battered women under siege.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .B38 2000
Behind closed doors.
An in-depth examination of domestic violence including the issues of child abuse and battered women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ809.3.U5 B4 1992
Beneath paradise.
Panel discussion on the problem of domestic violence and child abuse in Micronesia. Panelists: William Eperfam, Joshua Phillip, and Tina Takesby.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DU500 .I86 pt.5
Defending our lives a film about domestic violence.
Shows the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country. This video features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terrifying personal testimonies. Each of these women tells her own horrific tale of beatings, rape and torture at the hands of her husband or boyfriend.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .D43 1999
Domestic violence behind closed doors.
Women who have been abused by men talk about their experiences and describe how they left the abusive relationship and made a new life for themselves and their children. Community support and shelters are essential to help abused women.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .D668 1994
Domestic violence faces of fear.
Examines the crosscultural phenomenon of domestic violence and looks at how the medical community, law enforcement agencies, and corporate America are helping to end the silence. Highlights innovative responses throughout the country and around the world.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ809 .D655 1996
Ending domestic violence.
A victims' rights advocate tells the story of her 18 month marriage in which she was beaten and nearly killed by an abusive husband. Today, she fulfills her personal vision of helping others. In this program, she counsels a mother of three, who is also involved in an abusive relationship.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ809.3.U5 E6 1997
From one prison.
Interviews in a Michigan prison with women imprisoned for murdering abusive men in self-defense. Highlights injustice and inequities in the legal system regarding women. The average sentence for women convicted of killing men is 20 years; that for men convicted of killing women , 2-6 years. Approximately 80% of women who commit murder kill abusers in self-defense.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6046 .F76 1994
In love.
Four women reflect upon relationships involving physical and emotional abuse.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .I6 1997
Jacquelyn Campbell women's responses to battering.
Dr. Campbell studies women's responses to battering, including marital rape, low birth weight as it relates to battering during pregnancy, international perspectives, and efforts to create a standard assessment for battering in emergency departments. The primary purpose of her program of research is to empower battered women, both individual women who participate in her studies and battered women in general, through using research results to influence public policy.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .J33 1993
Violence against women.
The secrecy sourrounding domestic violence is the focus of the program. It contains stories of hope for women who are currently in violent relationships, and provides valuable information on how to leave an abusive partner.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626 .V56 1997
When women kill.
Places the personal stories of three battered women in a legal/historical context. Ann Jones, author of "Women Who Kill" explains the evolution of societies' attitude toward women who murder abusive spouses. In this film, we meet three women who tell why they killed and exposes the obstacles facing women who live with batterers.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
Women who kill.
Documentary about five women who killed their partners after enduring years of violent sexual abuse and emotional torture; it focuses on their fight to get the British legal system to recognize the experience of battered women, featuring the case of Kiranjit Ahzuwahlia who was finally freed after an intense campaign.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6535.G7 W6 1994
General

After the Montreal Massacre.
One year after the massacre of fourteen women at Montréal's École Polytechnique on December 6 1989, this video looks at the issue of male violence against women, women's fear, and what we as a society must do.
Johnson Center Permanent Media Reserve
HV6535.C33 M65
AfterShocks voices and visions of youth in a violent world.
This video is a collection of dramatic visual images of youth violence accompanied by teen reflections on its causes and effects. Child abuse, racism, fatherless families, poverty, drugs and teen pregnancy are discussed as possible causes of the increasing rate of youth violence.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV9104 .A58 1997
All different, all equal.
Part 11 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women -- five years after the Beijing Conference on Women where government delegations pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women. Examines gains in women's rights globally with visits to Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Fiji, New Zealand, Brazil and other nations focusing on crimes against women and achievements by women towards equality.
Johnson Center Videotapes
JZ1318 .L54 2000 pt.11
In the name of honour.
art 21 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This program explores how oppression of the minority Kurds in the disputed enclave of Northern Iraq has unleashed a chain of violence and crimes often directed at Kurdish women and how Kurdish women are fighting back for their own protection and working for human rights in Iraq.
Johnson Center Videotapes
JZ1318 .L54 2000 pt.21
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
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)
Lorena Bobbitt Women and violence.
"Investigates the ramifications of the Bobbitt case, and the growing trend of women committing violent crimes.
Prince William Campus Videotapes
HQ809.3.U5 L67 1994
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
No safe place violence against women.
Explores the origins of violence against women, includes the moving stories of women who have been assaulted, and interviews men who commit these crimes and experts who look at causes and solutions.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6626.2 .N67 1996
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
Power to choose.
An instructional program on the use of power and violence in teenage dating relationships.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ728 .P68 1988
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
Rights & wrongs. Video 3, Women under attack.
Promotes increased awareness of the universality of the crime of rape and of the urgent need for human rights for women revealed by the systematic rape of women in Bosnia by Serbian soldiers. Includes reports on worldwide state sponsored violence towards women and the international human rights movement to stop the violence through documentation of events in order to establish criminal charges and bring the violators to justice. Victims offer testimony of events in Bosnia, Kashmir, and Peru and a rape room is shown in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. Female genital mutilation in Africa and Asia is described in personal testimony as well as in an interview with Alice Walker about her documentary films. Scenes from Fire Eyes and Warrior Marks are shown to demonstrate how mutilation is often performed, and Walker reads from her novel Possessing the Secret of Joy.
Johnson Center Videotapes
JC571 .R55 pt.3
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
TV violence & you.
Well-known expert on violence, George Gerbner, analyzes one week of television shows to determine their level of violence. He analyzes the effects on viewers of both blatant violence and subtle violent imagery; violent relationships portrayed between men and women, within the context of the growing incidence of rape; and violence at sports events.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ784.T4 T9 1997
Underground.
An exhibit, consisting of a railroad track, with a poem begun carved into the first tie and continued in each succeeding tie, leading of a telephone booth, and junked automobiles with messages printed on them, in a park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dramatizing the matter of abuse to women by their (male) partners. Also included are television interviews with women who freed themselves from abusive relationships, and comments about the exhibit.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.D6 U64
Voice, vision, violence.
Based upon a March 1993 symposium held at George Mason University, "After the Montreal Massacre: Canadian Perspectives on Violence Against Women," with a list of discussion questions to be used in classes and student/faculty groups.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6250.4.W65 V65 1993
Warning : the media may be hazardous to your health an evening with Ann J. Simonton.
Exposes the dangers of media models that glamorize violence, fear and hatred between the sexes. Based on a slideshow by activist, writer and national lecturer, Ann J. Simonton.
Johnson Center Videotapes
P94 .W3 1990.
Genital Mutilation

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
Female circumcision human rites.
Documents the ritual of female genital mutilation (emale circumcision), practiced among some African groups. This video also explores its roots in myth; and discusses movements underway to ban the practice.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GN484 .F36 1998
Warrior marks.
Documentary about female genital mutilation in Africa. Includes interviews with victims, activists against female circumcision, and circumsizers.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GN484 .W352 1993
Rape

The Accused.
A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assualt.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .A2805
Boys don't cry.
The story of the life of Teena Brandon (Swank), a transgender youth who preferred life in his male identity as Brandon Teena. When his biological sex was discovered, Brandon was raped and murdered. Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
PN1997 .B6885 2000
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .B6885 2000b
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
HV6773.54.N43 M88 1999b
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6773.54.N43 M88 1999
Breaking ground men against rape.
Shows a variety of programs in which men provide training in rape prevention. The featured programs include in-school education, public service ad campaigns, and community self-defense programs.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
Campus rape.
Actors Corbin Bernsen and Susan Dey present interviews with rape victims from several college campuses and provide prevention information.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6561 .C2
Confronting date rape the girls room.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6561 .C66 1999
The Date rape backlash the media and the denial of rape.
A critical examination of how media portrayal of date rape has evolved within a span of five years from portraying date rape as an epidemic to a view of date rape as feminist victim oriented propaganda.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6561 .D3 1994
Peter Jennings reporting Men, sex & rape.
Peter Jennings raises questions about men and rape: how men really view women, effects of topless bars, and provocative women's clothing on male behavior. Features interviews with rapists and their victims which expose motives and effects. Discusses punishments enacted against rapists as a solution.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6561 .P48 1991
Rape, an act of hate.
"This program conscientiously destroys many of the myths that surround the act of rape. It asserts that rape is not a sexual, but rather a violent act."
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6558 .R3 1986
Rape stories.
In October 1979, Margie Strosser was raped in the elevator of her apartment building. Two weeks later, she asked a friend to interview her about the incident. Ten years later, she remembers and recounts the rape, revealing the emotional texture of the experience and the reshaping of the event through memory. Between these two distant and disparate versions of the same story, slips a third, that of the video narration, which integrates the experience over time, revealing the process of recovery. Candid and intimate, Rape Stories speaks to women's common fears and the importance of telling our stories, however painful.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6558 .R36 1989
Recovery from sexual abuse.
The program is designed to acknowledge and validate the feelings and experiences of teens and adults who have been sexually abused, and to encourage recovery within a context of healing and hope.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6556 .R43 1996
A stranger in our home.
Follows the experiences of two teenagers who met sexual predators online and came very close to dangerous entanglements. The teens talk about their experiences, a member of the group Cyber Angels talks about their work in identifying predators, and detectives talk about their work on these and similar cases.
Johnson Center Videotapes
On Order: Check Catalog for Call Number
Thelma & Louise.
Two friends, one an unhappy housewife the other a wise-cracking waitress, decide to take a vacation from their lives, but things soon get out of control after an incident at a roadside café.
Johnson Center DVD -- at Circulation Desk
PN1997 .T442 1998
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .T442 1992
Waking up to rape.
Discussions with women who have experienced rape. Includes prevention and self-defence techniques.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6558 .W36 1985
War zone.
Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West, uses a video camera to demonstrate the gender rules of the street, where access to women's bodies is regarded as a male right.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1237.5.U6 W37 1998
"When a kiss is not just a kiss" sex without consent.
Divided into 3 parts and presented to a live audience of college students, this video provides introductory comments, a narrative story, and a question and answer period with the audience. Offers an interactive spontaneous dialogue designed to elicit thinking and dialogue about sex without consent.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HV6561 .W464 1995
Sexual Harassment

Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas the untold story.
Discusses women who were willing to testify against Judge Thomas at his confirmation hearings but who were not called upon to do so. Includes interviews with them, Anita Hill, former members of the Senate judiciary committee, and authors of the book Strange justice.
Johnson Center Videotapes
KF8475.T48 A54 1995
Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.
Discusses the Thomas confirmation hearings, the charges of sexual harrassment by Anita Hill, and the reactions from Afro-Americans.
Johnson Center Videotapes
KF8745.T48 C52 1992
Sexual harassment from 9 to 5.
This program looks at the legal and human side of sexual harassment in the workplace, portraying women whose lives were deeply affected by this highly aggressive and largely hidden form of discrimination; shows the rights of women, the responsibilities of male workers and the companies which employ them, and some corporate efforts to help employees distinguish between romance, harassment, and sexual extortion. Discusses the changing laws regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and how companies are responding and complying with these new laws.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HD6060.5 .S484 1992
Sexual harassment building awareness on campus.
This video discusses what sexual harassment is and ways people can be made more aware of it in colleges and universities.
Johnson Center Videotapes
LC212.862 .S498 1995
Sexual harassment it's no game.
Using scenes from the television police series Cagney and Lacey, a simulated training session shows how both supervisors and employees can be brought to an awareness of what sexual harassment is, that it's illegal and harmful to business, and what can be done about it.
Johnson Center Videotapes
KF3467 .S494
Stop sexual harassment on campus.
Presents dramatizations about sexual harassment on campus and outlines a course of action to resolve conflict.
Johnson Center Videotapes
LC212.86 .S75
Women's voices : after the Thomas Hearings.
Pamela Holt of Hennepin County Library leads a panel discussion on sexual harrassment in the workplace and in society with Dr. Marilyn J. Mason, psychotherapist; Rose Brewer, PhD., University of Minnesota Afro-American Studies; Sally Flax, Minnesota World Wide Women; and Yolanda Williams, Minneapolis Community College.
Johnson Center Videotapes
KF8745.T48 W66 1991

Return to Top

Return to Women's Studies Media Collection Guides


Developed and maintained by Thomas Herndon, Multimedia and Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian at the George Mason University Libraries.
Please e-mail comments and suggestions to therndo2@gmu.edu.
Last Reviewed, May 2002