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![Ending men’s violence - pathways to a gender-just world -- “a feminist future for men”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 067Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
bell hooks speaks at a conference on masculinity and feminism from 1990, where she references her fourth book, Yearning, as well as different depictions of masculinity in popular culture, especially television and film. Specific topics hooks addresses are that all women and men long to be loved and long to be free, socialization of black males versus white males, and how the media and popular culture perpetuates gender stereotypes. bell hooks concludes by saying the feminist transformation can heal men by deflecting focus on power and moving the focus to pain. Following her lecture are quick speeches and by Patricia Merchant, an Episcopal priest, John McDonald, founder of a Canadian AIDS support group, and Claude Franklin, a professor of sociology at Ohio State.
![Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 068Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
![Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 069Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
![Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
![Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 074Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. On this tape many of the speakers talk about the need for increasing the public lesbian community through demonstrations and gatherings. This recording follows JG/LS 073.
![Her Wits About Her: interviews with women who defended themselves against rape and assault](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1987Call Number: JG/ 082Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Her Wits About HerCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The program consists of a series of interviews and testimonies from women who defended themselves from rapists and assault. The stories are often quite emotionally difficult to listen to, but the stories are ultimately hopeful and inspiring.
![Women’s Movement Discussion](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 099Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An interview with an unnamed Spanish speaking woman translated into English. Discussion focuses on the feminist movement and social transformation. The clarification of whether this movement is pushing for more of their own demands as women, or simply creating a greater awareness as to the social position of women. This topic is fleshed out, and the emergence of new groups and ideals are discussed as the word ‘feminism’ begins to find definition in the movement.
![Women’s Movement Discussion #2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 100AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
A continuation of tape JG/LS 099. Details the situation of women in a Catholic country and the obstacles feminism must overcome. Personal details of the interviewee.
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