From the Collection
www.barnard.edu/bcrw/archive
The ephemera collection of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
contains hundreds of rare, difficult-to-find feminist materials dating
back to the early Second Wave of American women's movements. This public
archive of fliers, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, and conference
programs provides an exciting glimpse into one of the most vibrant
moments in the history of activism. Beginning in the spring of 2006, the
Center will present Internet exhibits to make these valuable materials
more widely available. Each semester, our student research assistants
will curate an exhibition of the most interesting documents, organizing
them around a theme of enduring importance: from women's prison activism
to reproductive health to immigration rights to political
revolution.
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Video
Working with filmmaker Rebecca Haimowitz, BCRW has produced two
documentaries:
Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions
To those who claim that feminism has had its day, BCRW offers a brief,
fascinating, and irrefutable rebuttal. In Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions,
filmmaker Rebecca Haimowitz interviews some of the most exciting voices in feminist
scholarship and activism.
Commissioned in 2005 to reflect the first 30 years of the Scholar & Feminist
conference, this half-hour documentary asks feminists across generations about past
controversies, current challenges, and future actions of a feminist movement
that remains as vibrant as it is varied.
This film features interviews with Jennifer Baumgardner, Ana Liza
Caballes, Leslie Calman, Lisa Duggan, Jane Gould, Hester Eisenstein,
Amber Hollibaugh, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Janet Jakobsen, Temma Kaplan,
Vivien Labaton, Dawn Lundy Martin, Dr. Andree-Nicola McLaughlin, Sunita
Metha, Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Minnich, Debra O'Gara, Riya Ortiz, Ann
Pellegrini, Amy Richards, Susan Reimer Sacks, Dean Spade, and Emily Woo
Yamasaki.
Visit S&F Online to watch the film online.
The film is available on DVD for $12. Please contact BCRW to order.
Engendering Justice: Women Prisons and Change
The rate of imprisonment in the United States has been rising at
exponential rates. In the last two decades alone, the population of
incarcerated women has increased by 400 percent. At the heart of these
numbers we find not only a certain philosophy of crime and punishment,
but also complex and largely unexamined attitudes toward those we
imprison. On April 8, 2006, building on an ongoing conversation that the
Barnard Center for Research on Women has facilitated through its Women
Seeking Justice lecture series, we hosted a daylong conference to
investigate the causes and consequences of women's imprisonment both
domestically and abroad. Rebecca Haimowitz weaves segments of this
conference and post-conference interviews in this important film that
considers the ways in which incarceration is ultimately and inextricably
linked to such issues as race, class, education, national identity, and
gender conformity.
Visit S&F Online to watch the film online.
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Podcasts
Get BCRW Podcasts (iTunes)
BCRW's programs are now available as podcasts, free audio or video files that can be downloaded
to your computer. Using iTunes (free software by Apple for either Mac or PC),
you can subscribe to our podcasts and automatically receive new programs as they are added. You can
listen or watch on your computer, or take them with you on your iPod or other portable media device.
If you don't have iTunes on your computer, visit
the Apple website
to download it for free.
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