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Showing 1 - 10 of 816 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Gender Studies
Abortion Helpline
At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Abortion: Add to Cart
With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
The Activists
The story of activists who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including their lives, the tactics they used, and the historical context.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 60 minutes
Adios Amor
The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot - Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who became the charismatic leader of an early movement for farmworker justice
GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 59 minutes
Adonis
What risks are boys willing to take to achieve the perfect body? In general indifference, a public health crisis is unfolding: more and more young men are consuming anabolic steroids in order to achieve the body of their dreams.
Andana Films | 2024 | 52 minutes
Adriana's Pact
As her family’s worst nightmare unfolds on screen, the director tries to disproof accounts of her aunt’s role as an agent of Pinochet’s secret police. But… who is telling the truth?
Pragda Films | 2017 | 96 minutes
After the Rape
After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.
Women Make Movies | 2008 | 58 minutes
The Alarm Rings Softly
Caribbean women use drama and reggae to fight domestic violence.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 12 minutes
Alba
A coming-of-age film that is both heart-rending and unsentimental, the film follows Alba as family and social circumstances force her to pave her way into adolescence.
Pragda Films | 2016 | 94 minutes
Albertina and the Dead
Albertina, the spiritual leader of a village built over indigenous tombs, is in charge of communicating with the Ño, a deity whose physical form is a rag doll.
Pragda Films | 2022 | 81 minutes
