Venezuela: Del Siglo 21 a la Prehistoria
In 1524, Venezuela was the first country with a woman ruler—on Margarita Island. Beginning there, this program traces the role of women in the nation’s profitable oil industry, and their struggle with oil companies to protect the environment. Th...
The Romantics
The Romantic movement—a reaction against the orderliness of 18th-century classicism and 19th-century industrialization—strove above all for self-expression. The Romantics composed for themselves and the new bourgeois audiences that now frequente...
Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
Diana Rigg is the manipulative Hedda, who will not or cannot conform to what society considers "normal" for a woman. The arrival of an ex-lover on the scene gives her the opportunity to determine someone else’s fate—but of course that is not wha...
La Celestina : Part 1
This vintage dramatization of La Celestina—arguably the most influential work of the early Renaissance in Spain—places the spotlight squarely on Celestina, an old bawd who dominates the story’s action. Recruited by Calisto to help him seduce a...
Ancient Greece
Whether looking at Western language, history, or institutions, no other civilization has so greatly influenced our contemporary world. This program re-creates the Greek world, from the morning market to the evening symposiums, from burial rituals to...
Brasil: Sacerdotistas, Sambistas y Mulatas de Brasil
This program discusses the lives of two groups of women—the women of northern Bahia and the mulattos of Rio de Janeiro—both descendants of African slaves. In Bahia, voodoo religious practices are revealed, as well as the problems of prostitution...
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." So spoke Virginia Woolf in 1929 as she discussed the problems of the writer and of women in general. Woolf’s talk represents perhaps the most persuasive of all her writing...
Nicaragua: Del Rojo al Violeta
This program follows the progress of women’s rights and equal employment from the Contra war through the term of former president Violeta Chamorro. A former Sandinista fighter who lost a foot laying mines for the Contras wants the government to gi...
México: La Rebelión de la Llorona
This is the story of Mexican women who have fought, and continue to fight, for equality and women’s rights. They are women looking for children kidnapped during political pogroms, journalists, writers, and political activists. Machismo and the res...
Ecuador: La Mujer Indígena
Isolated in jungles, or crowded into large cities, Latin American Indians constitute the most exploited sector of society. This program traces the harsh life of indigenous women from several tribes, including the Otavalan, Puruha, and Quechua of Ecu...