LibGuides: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Recommended Films

Documentaries

Butch Mystique
"Women from varying backgrounds--mothers, activists, artists--share raw, powerful, and intimate thoughts on being outside the norm, being powerful butch identified women, and being themselves."
China's Lost Girls
Host Lisa Ling examines the consequences of China's two-decade-old, one-child policy. As traditional preference leans toward boys, girls are often hidden, aborted or abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands of girls end up in orphanages across China.
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
This documentary follows the political career of a Harlem school teacher, Shirley Chisholm, who campaigned to become the first black woman to ever run for president.
Not for ourselves alone : the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
"An account of these two women's struggle against slavery and for women's suffrage in the United State is provided."
The Last Abortion Clinic
"FRONTLINE investigates the steady decline in the number of physicians and clinics performing abortions, and focuses on local political battles in states like Mississippi, where only a single clinic performs the controversial procedure."
The Pill
"Featuring personal accounts from the first generation of women to have access to the Pill, this films show how harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history."
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
"Chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show 'The Vagina Monologues' grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement dedicated to stopping violence against women and girls."
Women in American Life
Five-part video documentary of the experiences and contributions of women in American history, from the Civil War through the 1970s.

Films

My American Girls

MY AMERICAN GIRLS: A DOMINICAN STORY captures the joys and struggles over a year in the lives of the Ortiz family, first generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Matthews' film captures the rewards — and costs — of pursuing the American dream. From hard-working parents, who imagine retiring to their rural homeland, to fast-tracking American-born daughters, caught between their parent's values and their own, the film encompasses the contradictions of contemporary immigrant life.

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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Recommended Films

Documentaries

Films

My American Girls

A Girl Like Me

Reviving Ophelia