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  1. 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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  2. Body of a Poet, The: A Tribute to Audre Lorde 1934-1992 (1995 Video)

    Director
    Sonali Fernando
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 29 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS) (Arts Council)

    An imaginary biography of Audre Lorde - African-American, lesbian, feminist, professor, mother, visionary and ‘warrior poet’ - who died of cancer in 1992. The film meditates on those moments in a life...

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  3. Lesbian Health Matters (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £100.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Training for health professionals, showing acceptable and unacceptable practices by means of dramatised ocnsultations between lesbian patints and healthcare professionals and interviews with lesbian...

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  4. Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Marquise Lepage
    Producer
    Josée Beaudet
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire (film) Sale (video), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

    Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all...

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  5. Shinjuku Boys (1995 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto; Jano Williams
    Producer
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Sociology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows the lives of three hosts in the ‘New Marilyn’ nightclub in Tokyo, where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. Although young heterosexual women who visit the club often have...

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  6. Rise of a New Eve, The (1994 Video)

    Director
    Siobhan Cleary
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

    Examine women’s involvement in Fascist parties past and present in Italy, France, Germany and the UK. Women currently involved call themselves ‘modern nationalists’ in order to distance themselves from...

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  7. Voices from Iraq (1994 Video)

    Director
    Mirium Ryle
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

    Filmed in the markets, streets and hopitals of Baghdad, looks at the emotional and social legacy of the continuous conflict in Iraq. Focuses on the experiences of a young doctor and her family, and also...

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  8. Dialogues with Madwomen (1993 Video)

    Director
    Allie Light; Irving Saraf
    Subject
    Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 90 min.

    Interviews with seven women who have experienced mental illness in the form of multiple personality, manic depression, schizophrenia, euphoria. In a film about the private symbols of madness and sanity, the...

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  9. Dream Girls (1993 Video)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto; Jano Williams
    Subject
    Drama; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale (video), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Discusses the popularity of the transvestite theatre of the famous Takaruzuka Music School in Japan - the Takarazuka Revue, an enormously successful spectacular where an all-woman cast create fantasies of...

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  10. Warrior Marks (1993 Video)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Producer
    Alice Walker
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min.

    Writer Alice Walker travels from California to England, Gambia and Senegal, meeting women who are fighting against the practice of female genital mutilation. The film examines some of the cultural and...

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