Playing With Fire: Women Actors of Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, women deciding to be actors make a dangerous choice. Banned under Taliban rule (1994-2001), Afghan theater is experiencing a comeback with many women at the forefront. But with powerful forces of Islamic fundamentalism, a resurgent T...
Shackled women: abuses of a patriarchal world
With dowries reaching fifty percent of a family's income, a second daughter is often called "the girl born for the burial pit." This program assesses second- and third-world abuses of women's rights by the male establishment - and examines how femal...
Rights & Wrongs: The Story of Women in Islam
By returning to the roots of Islam and understanding how societies have found justification for their treatment of women within Islamic sources, this thoughtful and far reaching film is an essential resource that debunks myths about women and Islam....
Half The Sky - Part 1
Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Half The Sky - Part 2
Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Women's rights: raising the glass ceiling
Despite the progress of the international women’s movement in exposing and correcting human rights abuses against females, in many countries women are still fighting to attain the most basic of civil liberties. This program contextualizes that str...
Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World - The Story of Malala
“They cannot stop me. I will get my education,” declares Malala Yousafzai in this riveting ABC News interview, filmed in the wake of the young activist’s 2013 trip to the United States. Her resoluteness and courage are unmistakable, but as she...
Inside a Shari'ah Court
Some democratic governments have considered allowing Muslim communities to conduct their own courts of law, or Shari’ah courts. Westerners who oppose such measures cite reports of amputation and stoning wherever Shari’ah has taken hold. This pro...
Nefertiti’s Daughters
A story of women, art and revolution, this vibrant film documents the critical role that revolutionary street art played - and is continuing to play - in the political uprising of Egypt. Introducing a cadre of courageous and gifted female artists wh...
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Vol. 54 – No. 4
This issue contains articles on the first meeting of a new Faculty-Student Relations Committee, information regarding college summer session, and the Second Brooklyn College Women's Festival.
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