In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a feminist delegation composed of author Nawal Saadawi and other renowned activists from the Middle East and North Africa gathers at the UN, on college campuses, and in church basements to speak out about deterioration of women's rights in the Arab states in an effort to heighten awareness of the Arab feminist struggle for equality--and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on their efforts.

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...

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Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women dur...

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Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

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An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

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Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

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