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Idea of Gender, The (1995 Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: US$189.00 (+p&p)

Asks how far gender roles are determined by nature and how much by social and cultural forces. James Sheehan of Stanford University lectures on how the idea of gender has evolved in Europe and America over...

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Shakespeare - King Lear: The Family in Shakespeare (2002 Video)

Examines King Lear from a modern feminist viewpoint, opening up discussions about gender roles in Shakespeare’s text. The video juxtaposes the text as performed, against specially written scenes to...

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Gender, Early Morality, And the Self (1992 Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

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

Examines research on the role of the family in the development of gender roles, morals and self-concept. Shows children from diverse backgrounds to illustrate how children’s behaviour outside the family is...

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Underage (1982 Film, Video)

Director

Lizzie Lemon; Kim Longinotto

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A ‘cinema-verité' look at a group of adolescents in Coventry who spend their leisure hours roaming the streets or visiting discos. Topics raised include racialism, glue-sniffing, petty theft, sexual...

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Means of Grace (1996)

Director

J. Clements

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $99 [Institutional rate]

Ann Clements Conger was an ambitious journalist in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s she became a mother, and torn between her domestic roles and her career, she began a frightening journey into the world of...

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Sex Roles: Charting the Complexity of Development (1991 Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: US$189.00 (+p&p)

Examines three theories of socialisation - Freudian, cognitive-developmental, and social-learning - and analyses how each theory views the nature vs nurture controversy. Explores the impact of sex-role...

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Face Values. Part 1: Men and Women (1978 Film)

Director

David Cordingley

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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Lear ‘87 Archive (2001 Film)

Director

Jill Godmilow

Producer

Jill Godmilow

In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...

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Good Wife of Tokyo, The (1992 Film, Video)

Director

Kim Longinotto

Producer

Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

After living in England for 15 years, when on a return trip to Tokyo with her Tottenham-based band the Frank Chickens, cabaret artiste and singer Kazuko Hohki decided to get married to please her mother. In...

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Top Girls (1996 Video)

Producer

Mags Noble

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £44.99

An introduction to Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Top Girls’, its production history. The full television production of the play, broadcast on BBC2 on 2 Nov 1991 and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, is shown....

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