Streaming Sinclair Videos: Women's Studies

Link to Video (45 minutes)
"A look at India's population problem with special emphasis on women's roles and problems."

Link to Video (38 minutes)
"These anonymous women artists have dedicated themselves to informing the public of the inequality which persists in the art world with respect to women artists and their work. Dressed in gorilla masks, they discuss their postering activities and their collaborative projects."

Link to Video (27 minutes)
"Some of the most prominent leaders in Pakistani society are women, yet in Pakistan a raped woman can be charged under Islamic law with having extramarital sex. Examines the activities of the Women's Action Forum and Sindhiani Tehreeq, the country's largest women's organization, and the problems of the mainly rural women it represents."

Link to Video (75 minutes)
"When film-maker Shohei Imamura went to Southeast Asia he met one of the "karayuki-san," Japanese women abducted from their homeland and forced to labor in the brothels of the Malay peninsula. Through a series of talks with these women, now aged and penniless, he came to understand their plight but also the cause of it. In short, the karayuki-san were to be economic spearheads in the overseas expansion of the Japanese during the first decades of this century."

Link to Video (30 minutes)
"Contains excerpts from the program: Picture brides : lives of Hawaii's early immigrant women from Japan, Okinawa and Korea, and interviews with its producers. Describes the arrival of immigrant brides from the Far East in Hawaii from 1908-1924, and the hardships they endured of long workdays, low pay, poor living conditions and lack of childcare or educational services; with interviews of former picture brides."

Link to Video (37 minutes)
"This program shows how pervasive stereotypes are of man as Superman and woman as his slavish bride on film and TV, in the fiction on which they are based, even in so-called documentaries. Bombarded from all sides by this point of view, women as well as men commonly accept the stereotype."