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Adolescence: The Prolonged Transition (1992 Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 30 min., 1997 sale: US$189.00 (+p&p)

Uses historical and cross-cultural comparisons to question whether the view of adolescence as a period of increased autonomy, identity development, and risk-taking is merely a social construction. Discusses...

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William Sexspeare’s ‘Much Ado About Puberty’ (1999 Film)

Director

Ken Boynton

Independent short. Shakespeare, as a boy, worries about the onset of puberty and consults his parents about the facts of life. The film’s dialogue is spoken in pseudo-Elizabethan blank verse and William is...

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Sex in the 1950s (1947)

Subject

Health Education; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), $14.99

This amazing collection of American sex education films deals with such issues as menstruation (Molly Grows Up), puberty (Physical Aspects of Puberty), acceptable displays of affection (How Much Affection?),...

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Breast Cancer (1994 Video)

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The high incidence of breast cancer among women in the West appears to be related to lifestyle, diet, age of puberty, and the number and spacing of pregnancies. Hope for eradicating the disease may lie with...

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Chole Island: Circumcision (1978 Film)

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Male circumcision is the centre of a ritual which marks a stage in the male life cycle. Concerns an Islamic group in Tanzania and shows a part of the typical pattern of these rites - separation from the old,...

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Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea (1988 Video)

Director

Jon Jerstad; Ariane Lewis

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A record of Rauit village, Sepik Inland, Papua New Guinea, chiefly from the woman’s point of view. Opens with the final stages of a ritual called ‘malyi’ with a masked dancer performing and the...

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Fight to Be Male, The (1979 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at scientific work in the 1970s in the area of human sex determination. Notes that a single protein, the HY antigen, is solely responsible for building male organs, and if it is destroyed, the material...

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Birds and the Bees, The (2011)

aka: Joy of Sex Education, The

Subject

Health Education; History; Media studies; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 338 minutes), £19.99

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...

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Classic Sex Education Films (2005)

Subject

Health Education; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 108 minutes), $9.99

A compilation of seven American sex education films made between 1935 and 1973.

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Human Body, The (7 Parts) (1998 Video)

Director

Richard Dale

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 344 minutes), £34.99

Series in which Professor Robert Winston examines how the body has evolved. Uses state-of-the art photography and medical imaging to show the workings of the body from the inside. In seven parts. 1: The...

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