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Rites of Passage: Four Stories of Survival (1995 Video)

Director
Diane Best

Subject
Development studies; Women’s studies

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

The stories of four teenage girls coming of age and the personal cost of this transition. A Nicaraguan girl is addicted to glue sniffing and is slipping into a life of prostitution; an Indian girl has been...
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Rites: Female Circumcision and Infibulation (1990 Video)

Director
Penny Dedman

Producer
Penny Dedman

Subject
Anthropology; Development studies; Women’s studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £23.00

Female genetial mutilation (FGM) has been commonplace throughout history. In many parts of the world women and girls are horribly mutilated by loving female relatives or respected medical practitioners. This...
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Female Circumcision / A Cruel Ritual (1991 Video)

Producer
Louise Panton

Subject
Social welfare

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 40 min., 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) both parts

1 (1983): Shows that although illegal, about 90% of women in Khartoum, Sudan, undergo circumcision, often without anaesthetic. The programme ed to an Act of Parliament making the practice illegal in...
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Broken Silence, The (2003)

Subject
Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution
Sale, VHS (PAL), £10.00

This film deals with the psychosocial problems and socio-cultural considerations, in which young girls and women who have undergone female circumcision can find themselves, especially when living in a...
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Day I Will Never Forget, The (2004)

Subject
Anthropology

Distribution
Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 minutes), £50.00

The documentary explores the local dimension of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Maasai and Somali and crosscut by Christian evangelists,...
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Hidden Faces (1996 Film, Video)

Director
Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto

Subject
Women’s studies

Distribution
Film (16mm)

Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...
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