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Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World, The (2013)

aka: Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World

Subject

Chemistry; Physics; Science; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

How did the first woman to win the Nobel prize achieve such great things in a time when a woman’s place was in the home? This BBC documentary tells the story of her lifetime including her status as a...

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Critical Decisions in Mental Health (1984 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In six scenes, drawn from real-life experiences, a social worker comes into contact with a person who is showing some signs of mental illness: a young man who shows suicidal tendencies; a middle-aged woman...

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Grand Isle (1991)

aka: Awakening, The

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 112 minutes), £40.00

A film adaptation of the novel ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin. At the turn of the century in the southern USA, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man....

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Dreaming Rivers (1988 Film)

Director

Martina Attille

Subject

Sociology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 mins), $225

A lyrical drama about a black woman who was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to England. She has just died and her children are gathered around her. As they argue about their lives and discuss their...

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Woman in White, The (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 125 minutes), off air recording scheme members only

Television production of the Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, a gothic tale telling of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in...

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Rivers of Sand (1974 Film)

Director

Robert Gardner

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the Hamar, a relatively isolated people in South-western Ethiopia who practice mixed farming, keeping cattle and growing sorghum, in a dry area close to the Kenya border. Concerns the role of women,...

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Blue Black Permanent (1992)

Director

Margaret Tait

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 86 minutes), £14.99

This haunting and magical film moves between Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a woman’s attempts to come to terms with her mother’s death through her childhood memories. Filled with flashbacks and...

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Maybe Baby (2006)

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $49.90

A documentary from the USA which features six single women in their thirties and forties trying to conceive using donor-assisted conception.The film was made over a period of four years, and the emotional...

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Woman’s Portion, The (1918 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A short melodrama in which a working class woman falls asleep and dreams that her husband has returned from the war. When she discovers that he has deserted she spurns him. She wakes to find that her husband...

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Working with the Terminally Ill (1986 Video)

Producer

Malcolm J Brown

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Role-played conversations between a social worker and a woman with breast cancer demonstrate how they deal with her reactions to the diagnosis and together build up a relationship to support the dying woman...

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