WRC VIDEO LIBRARY

The MSU Women's Resource Center video library is available for use by MSU faculty, staff, and students. Use of these videos is free of charge. They can be checked out, but must be returned the following day by 10:00am unless the video is checked out on Friday. (If checked out on Friday, videos are due back on Monday before 10:00am.) Individuals may check out a maximum of three videos in one 24-hour period. It is suggested that you reserve the video(s) ahead of time either by calling the Women's Resource Center at 353-1635 or by coming to the Women's Resource Center at 332 Union Building. The videos may be reserved as far in advance as three months. Office hours are 8am-12pm and 1-5pm, Monday through Friday. If you have any questions, please contact WRC at 353-1635 or wrc@msu.edu.

Following is a complete list of the WRC's video resources, followed by descriptions of most of the videos. Click on the alphabetical heading (A, B, C) to jump down to the corresponding descriptions.

QUICK REFERENCE

-A-

ABC News Nightline: Forum on Men, Sex and Rape (WS)
Accessing the Sciences: Critical Issues Toward a New Millennium
Acquaintance Rape: The Broken Trust
A.C.T. for Equal Treatment Affirmative Action on Trial African American Female Conference 1999 (2)
All the Wrong Moves All University Excellence in Diversity Conference 1992 (WS)
The Americans with Disabilities Act: New Access To the Workplace
Analyzing Teaching (2)
Approaching the 14th Moon
Assertive Management Attitudes

-B-

Battle for the Minds (WS)
Between the Lines (WS)
Beyond The Dream Teleconference
Beyond Killing Us Softly
Blue Eyed
Breast Health and Breast Cancer: Women's Concerns
Breast Self-Examination: A Touch of Life
Brook Lodge: An Environment for Ideas
The Burkes Have AIDS

-C-

Career Encounters: Nursing
Catharine Stimpson: April 20-1990 (WS) (3/4 cassette) (2)
A Century of Women: Image and Popular Culture (WS)
A Century of Women: Sexuality and Social Justice (WS)
A Century of Women: Work and Family (WS)
The Challenge of Diversity
A Challenge To America: The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Chilly Climate for Women in Colleges and Universities
Choosing Equity: Making Sound Decisions in the Hiring Process
The Circle
Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain
Classroom Climate Workshops Code of Teaching Responsibility (WS)
The College Eye: Angry Eye
Color Adjustment
Communicate and Win
CompuTutor: Using Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC
Controlling Interruptions
A Costly Proposition: Sexual Harassment at Work
Countering The Conspiracy To Destroy Black Boys
Creative Recruiting

-D-

The Date Rape Backlash: The Media and the Denial of Rape (2)
Dealing with Diversity in the Classroom
Developing Interpersonal Competencies in Educational Leadership: Androgyny
DICEL Leadership
1995 Diversity Awards (Michigan State University)
1996 Diversity Awards (Michigan State University) (2)
1997 Diversity Awards (Michigan State University) (2)
1998 Diversity Awards (Michigan State University)
1999 Diversity Awards (Michigan State University)
Diversity Issues in Higher Education Diversity Issues in the Classroom (2)
Don't Go to Your Room...
DreamWorlds II: Desire, Sex, and Power In Music Video

-E-

The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde
Ethnic Notions Evelyn Fox Keller (WS)
Excellence in Diversity Awards Conference 4/6/90 (1st Annual)
Excellence in Diversity Conference - Cecilia Buiciaga: Building a Multi-racial/ Multi-cultural University Community
Excellence in Diversity Conference - Stanley Sue: Higher Education's Challenges & Solutions to Achieving Diversity
Excellence in Diversity Conference - Catharine Stimpson, 1992

-F-

The Fairer Sex
The Famine Within (WS)
The Female Closet (WS)
Fifteen and Pregnant
Fight For Your Life
First Time Manager (Audio Cassette)
Focus on Women: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Focus on Women: Panel Discussion on Backlash (WS)
Four Women in Science From One Prison...

-G-

Gentleness is Strength
Get Real: Straight Talk About Women's Health
Getting From Here to There (Audio Cassette)
Girls Around the World (WS)
The Global Assembly Line (WS)

-H-

Harassment in the Workplace
High Impact Leadership: How to be More than a Manager (Audio Cassette)
Hostages at Home: A Video on Domestic Violence
How to Delegate Work and Ensure It's Done Right (Audio Cassette)

-I-

Intent vs. Impact Interviews with the Past (Audio Cassette)
The Invisible Line On Campus (Faculty Version)
The Invisible Line On Campus (Staff Version)
Iron Jawed Angels
Iron Jawed Angels (edited version)

-J,K-

Jack Cade's Nightmare
The Joy that Kills (WS) (3/4 cassette)
Killing Us Softly 3 (WS)

-L-

Land of O's - Competing through Diversity
Lessons From History: African American Images Light in the Shadows
A Little Respect: Gay Men, Lesbians, & Bisexuals on Campus
Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in... (WS)
Long Shadows: The Life of Hara Reischauer (WS)

-M-

Mackinaw: The Complete Video Tour Guide
MammaCare Method of Breast Self-Examination
Managing Diversity With or Without Affirmative Action
Managing for Excellence (4)
Managing Today's Nonprofit Organization (Audio Cassette)
MANRRS: Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
Mass Transit Street Theater (WS)
Men of Color Teleconference
Menopause is More Than Just Hot Flashes
Mentoring For Ourselves and Our Sisters (2)
Minorities in the College Classroom (2)
Minority Women Perspective Teleconference Miriam's Daughters Now (WS)
Mirror Mirror
More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter
MSU Women's Resource Center Women Matter Celebration 2003 -- May 1, 2003
Multicultural Workplace My Feminism (WS)

-N-

Nappy: The Film
NCBPS '93' Prof. Pat Lowrie
Never Too Thin New Directions (WS)
Night Voices (WS)
No Longer Silent (WS)
Not a Love Story: a film about Pornography
Not a Sanctuary (2)
NOW's 20th Anniversary (WS)

-O-

One Fine Day One Man's/Person's Struggle with Gender-Biased Language (2)
One Person's Struggle with Gender-Biased Language, Part 2 (Audio Cassette)
One of Our Own
One Woman, One Vote (WS)
OUT Look

-P,Q-

The Perfect Body
The Perfect Place for Perfect Beginnings: Ingham's Women & Children's Center
Personal Safety at MSU: AOP 2000
Playing The Game: A Video on Date Rape
Positive Confrontation (2)
Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Management Responsibility -- The Risk
Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Shared Responsibility

-R-

Race Against Prime Time
Race and Assessment: Measurement and Legal Implications
Race, Class and Gender: Revisioning the Social... (WS) (VHS and 3/4 cassette)
Rape Under The Influence: Sexual Assault on Campus
Responding to Rape
Rest & Relax
The Road to Brown
Ruth Hubbard- In a Science Along Restructured... (WS) (3/4 cassette)

-S-

Satellite to Success
The Savage Cycle: A Video on Domestic Violence
Science for Life: Do It Yourself!
Seizing the Power: A Lifetime Challenge to the Women of America
Seneca Reflections: Celebrating 150 Years of... (WS)
Sex Equity in the College Classroom (3)
Sexual Assault Resources at Michigan State University
Sexual Harassment: A New Look at an Old Problem
Sexual Harassment: Building Awareness on Campus
Sexual Harassment: Chilling the Campus Climate (3)
Sexual Harassment: Prevention, Recognition, and Correction (2)
Sexual Harassment: Serious Business
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Definition and Defense
Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Proactive Approach Toward Prevention
Sexual Stereotyping and Gender Conflict
Shattering the Silence: The Case of Minority Faculty
Skin Deep
Slim Hopes (2)
Smarter Together
The Smell of Burning Ants
Something About the Women (WS) (3/4 cassette)
Still Burning: Part I: Campus Administrators Confront Ethnoviolence (2)
Still Burning: Part II: Ethnoviolence in the Campus Community (2)
Still Killing Us Softly (2)
Straight White Men and Me
Strangers in Good Company (WS)
Street Sex (WS)
The Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adoption
Survive and Thrive #1
Survive and Thrive #2
Survive and Thrive #3

-T-

Taking On The Boy's Club
A Tale of "O": On Being Different
Talking About Race Part 1
Talking About Race Part 2
Talking 9 To 5
Team Building: How to Motivate and Manage People (Audio Cassette)
Teen Awareness/Sexual Harassment
Tell A Friend
Tell Someone (Staff Version) (3/4 cassette)
Tell Someone (Student Version) (3/4 cassette)
Through My Lens
Today's Money Diet
Tough Guise

-U,V-

UMBC: Yes We Can
Unity and Diversity: Empowering Women to Explore... (WS) (Audio Cassette)
An Unstill Life (WS)
Venus Boyz
Voicing Psychology II (WS) (3/4 cassette)

-W-

The Way Home (3)
West Coast Crones (WS)
When Food Becomes an Obsession: Overcoming Eating Disorders
When a Kiss is not Just a Kiss: Sex Without Consent
Who Moved My Cheese?
Why Schools Fail Girls
The Willmar 8 (WS)
A Winning Balance
A Woman's Health
Women: An Action Plan
Women and Money
Women and Science: Issues and Resources (WS) (3/4 cassette)
Women of Color in Higher Education
Women Matter: Celebrating Women Achieving Excellence, with Dr. Gwen Norrell 5/1/02
Women Strike Back
Women Today: with Betty Friedan
Women Today: with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Ann Roiphe
Women Today: with Marlene Sanders
Women Today: with Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Shulman, and Julia Miles
Women Who Have Made a Difference (3)
Women's Lives Teleconference 3/27/2000
Women's Lives Teleconference 3/29/2000
Working Women in Multicultural Contexts... (Audio Cassette)
Working Women Summit Conference (2)
World of Light- A Portrait of May Sarton (WS) (3/4 cassette)
W.O.W. Melanie M. et al.
The Wrong Idea

-X,Y,Z-

You Are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus (2)
Yudie (WS)

(WS) denotes that the video was given to WRC by the MSU Women's Studies Program

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ABC News Nightline: Forum on Men, Sex, and Rape
VHS, 1991 (WS)
This forum, hosted by Peter Jennings, discusses scenes from the ABC Special Presentation of Men, Sex, and Rape (see below). The panel discussion was held at Palm Beach Community College, and included professors, psychologists, authors, and therapists. These participants discuss rape myths, power and control, body language, pornography, and other issues surrounding sexual assault.

Accessing the Sciences: Critical Issues Toward a New Millennium
VHS, Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies and the University of Oklahoma
This keynote address by Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, given, at the 11th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education on May 28-June 1, 1998, discusses the lack of gender equity in the field of science.

Acquaintance Rape: The Broken Trust
VHS, 22 minutes Intermedia, Inc. and KDN Videoworks Inc., 1992
This video uses interviews with rape survivors, commentary from rape and safety experts, and short dramatizations to dispel the myths surrounding acquaintance rape. It also provides facts and statistics about acquaintance rape and rape culture.

A.C.T. for Equal Treatment
VHS, 11 minutes, Northern Illinois University, 1986
This video presents a three-step A.C.T. for Equal Treatment process that demonstrates how students can confront the problem of sexual harassment on campus. Students learn to: (1) ask for equal treatment, (2) call on others for support, and (3) talk to officials about incidences of sexual harassment.

Affirmative Action on Trial
VHS, WKAR, MAPB, MSU, 2003
Interviews include University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, Charlotte Johnson, Assistant Dean of University of Michigan Law School, Marvin Krislov, University of Michigan General Counsel, Don Le Duc, President of Cooley Law School, and Paulette Granberry Russell, Michigan State University Director of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Monitoring, and Justin Shubow and Monique Perry, University of Michigan law students. Program explores the history behind the University of Michigan's admission policy and its effects on diversity goals on campus, in Michigan and nationally, along with a review of the Supreme Court ruling and discussion of the impact that ruling will have in the future.

African American Female Conference
1999 Raw Footage VHS
This unedited video shows everything that took place at the 1999 African American Female Conference.

All the Wrong Moves
VHS and Leader's Guide, 23 minutes, Darnell Films, 1987
Video vignettes covering sexual harassment in management, sales, and blue-collar work environments. Includes guidelines to deal effectively with sexual harassment, in a way that both compassionately considers the individual employee and effectively protects the company.

The Americans with Disabilities Act: New Access To the Workplace
VHS, Coronet/MTI Film & Video,1991
Released less than a year after the Americans with Disabilities Act, this video highlights basic tenets of the ADA, shows how the law will affect employers, and outlines the steps required to implement it. The video also dispels some of the myths surrounding people with disabilities and shows how their presence can benefit an organization.

Analyzing Teaching
VHS, 23 minutes, 1991 N.A.K. Productions
This video presentation has three different classroom scenes (two higher education and one secondary education). Analyzes teaching and sex equity in the classroom. Uses a code system to identify type and frequency of unequal treatment.

Approaching the 14th Moon
VHS, 53 minutes, Landmark Media Inc., 1994
This upbeat video weaves together interviews with women from across the cultural landscape, including physicians and practitioners of non-traditional medicine. The women are frank and gentle as their discussions range from indications of menopause to the broader issues of what it means to be a woman in the "second half of life."

Assertive Management
VHS, 75 minutes, Penton Videocourses, 1990
Video designed to help individuals become more productive and more effective in managing people.

Attitudes
VHS, Lifetime, 1992 Lifetime Cable Televison Special.
Video highlights a quick history of the Women's movement. Includes commentary from Gloria Steinem and Susan Faludi.

Battle for the Minds
VHS, 52 min., 1997 (WS)
This film is an expose of the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. It explores the rising tensions within the Southern Baptist world as it focuses on one woman's struggle against the movement's religious leaders and their views on the role of ordained women in the Baptist church.

Between the Lines
VHS, 1987 (WS)
This film is a discussion of Gender in the University Curriculum at MSU. This discussion is led by Phyllis Palmer, with faculty participants from multiple departments. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their programs and classes, and how to change disciplines to meet the needs of the increasing diversity on campus.

Beyond The Dream Teleconference
VHS, 2 hours, Cox, Matthews & Associates, 1990
Using varied formats, this teleconference addresses issues facing African Americans in the 1990s. Panel discussions focus on education, business, and civil rights/politics. The "Perspectives" segments feature interviews with African American musicians, artists, filmmakers, and writers, and discuss the role of the African American artist in society. "Reflections" segments offer historical images and commentary on African American settlers in the Western U.S., the Harlem Renaissance, and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Beyond Killing Us Softly
VHS, 2000, 33 minutes.
An engaging and informative view of the fight against the toxic and degrading messages to girls and women that dominate mainstream media. This documentary presents the ideas of many leading authorities in the fields of women's and girls' psychology, eating disorders, violence against women, and media literacy -- all focusing on long-term solutions. Featuring Gloria Steinem, Gail Dines, Carol Gilligan, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Valeri Batts, Jamila Capitman, and Amy Richards.

Blue Eyed
VHS, 93 minutes, California Newsreel
This film documents Jane Elliot's unique approach to diversity training. Ms. Elliot allows participants to experience for a day what many people in our society face daily due to their race, age, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or any other factor of identity of social location. Her skillful use of confrontation is intended to dislodge participants from the comfort of privilege long enough to learn about it.

Breast Health and Breast Cancer: Women's Concerns
89 minutes, 1994
Video is a workshop sponsored jointly by the Cancer Center at MSU, Healthy U and the Women's Resource Center. Learn about research and recommendations from some of MSU's breast cancer experts.

Breast Self-Examination: A Touch of Life
VHS, 19 minutes, MSU Instructional Media Center, 1992
Directed by Dr. Margaret Aguwa of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, this video features a roundtable discussion with several women of color, some of whom have had breast cancer, some of whom express reluctance to examine themselves, and some of whom express their success with early treatment as a result of regular breast self-examination. This program also includes physicians explaining the need for early detection and treatment, diagrammatic depictions of the self-examination process, and actual step-by-step demonstrations of breast self-examination.

Brook Lodge: An Environment for Ideas
VHS, 3:12, 1999
Short video describing the amenities offered at Brook Lodge.

The Burkes Have AIDS
VHS, 20 minutes, CBS News, 1985
This video discusses the most important things a person should know about HIV and AIDS. Interviews the first American family reported to have the virus.

A Century of Women: Image and Popular Culture
VHS, 95 min., 1994 (WS)
Using diaries, letters, and personal memoirs, this film brings women of the past to life again with never-before-seen archival film, photographs and interviews that retrace the extraordinary events that changed women's lives. This film explores the changing concepts of "ideal beauty" and how women see themselves.

A Century of Women: Sexuality and Social Justice
VHS, 95 min., 1994 (WS)
Using diaries, letters, and personal memoirs, this film brings women of the past to life again with never-before-seen archival film, photographs and interviews that retrace the extraordinary events that changed women's lives. This film explores women's efforts to shape their own destinies and establish a system of justice not only for themselves, but for all Americans.

A Century of Women: Work and Family
VHS, 95 min., 1994 (WS)
Using diaries, letters, and personal memoirs, this film brings women of the past to life again with never-before-seen archival film, photographs and interviews that retrace the extraordinary events that changed women's lives. This film deals with the struggle of women trying to have it all - work, marriage and motherhood. The balancing act of work and family is not entirely new.

The Challenge of Diversity
VHS, produced by SMCCD, 1990
This video addresses the importance of access and fairness in hiring processes. It depicts a hiring committee discussing job candidates, and highlights the balance of access and fairness in their deliberations.

A Challenge to America: The Americans with Disabilities Act
VHS, 36 minutes, PDA, 1991
This video provides an overview of the rights of persons with disabilities under the 1990 ADA, as well as the obligations of employers to provide equal opportunity to persons with disabilities.

Choosing Equity: Making Sound Decisions in the Hiring Process, VHS
This video comes with a training manual designed by the Community Colleges of Baltimore County. This manual/video is designed to serve as a workshop for faculty/staff who are familiar with his/her institution's search policies and procedures, an aid in institutional hiring process, and springboard for discussion.

The Circle
DVD, 91 minutes, 2000 (WS)
A woman gives birth to a baby girl and little does she know, she and her daughter are already unwanted. Three women are released from prison and their need for money leads them to take desperate measures. An unmarried woman seeking an abortion is rejected from her father's house by the violent threats of her brothers. Their crimes are vague, their guilt or innocence unimportant. Their paths cross, the suspense of their intrigues heightens. Their plights are often too tragically similar. Their world is one of constant surveillance, bureaucracy and age-old inequalities. But this stifling world cannot extinguish the spirit, strength and courage of the circle of women.

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain
VHS, 2 hours, Frontline, PBS Video, 1992
Drawing from the mesmerizing public record of the televised hearings, together with candid conversations with dozens of Black Americans, director Ofra Bikel probes how race was misrepresented and used by the nominee and his supporters and opponents. This program also details how little common understanding existed in the ways that Black and white Americans viewed the confirmation battle. What was riveting theater to a global television audience of tens of millions was an often cruel, humiliating experience for Black Americans. The program charts the entire course of events -- from Thurgood Marshall's resignation and the opening of the "Black Seat" on the Supreme Court, to the final emotional day when Thomas was sworn in as Associate Justice.

Classroom Climate Workshops, VHS
This video introduces the issue of gender equity, describes goals, time, medium, and format of gender equity workshops, offers a springboard for discussion and suggestions for facilitators, and provides reference material.

Code of Teaching Responsibility
VHS, 8 minutes (WS)
This video is a guide for faculty, and a summary of the code of teaching responsibility at MSU. This code discusses importance of good student-instructor relations, grades, exams, feedback, enrollment, and other issues relevant to teaching and learning at MSU.

The College Eye: Angry Eye
VHS, 35 minutes
A version of Jane Elliott's Blue Eyed experiment, this vidoe deals with the issues of diversity and prejudice in both educational and corporate settings. The program shows young adults from various ethnic and racial backgrounds as they are forced to explore racism in contemorary American society.

Color Adjustment
VHS, 87 minutes, California Newsreel, 1991
Part I: Color Blind TV? (1948-68) * Part II: Coloring the Dream (1968- ) This video presentation describes the role and use of television as it depicted Blacks from the 1940's to 1993. It addresses: absence of African Americans on TV; negative and stereotypical representations of African Americans; positive representations of African Americans which set unrealistic or unattainable standards. Includes analyses of "Amos 'n Andy," "Julia," "Good Times," "Roots," and "The Cosby Show."

Communicate and Win
VHS, 48 minutes, JWA/Encoders, 1989
Video designed for managers and supervisors, discussing seven areas of communication that a person needs to be successful in a business organization.

CompuTutor: Using Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC
VHS, 100 minutes, 1984, Chase Scientific, Inc.
This video gives easy step-by-step process on how to use Lotus 1-2-3. It uses special video effects to reinforce key points, cross referencing from video tape to owners manual.

Controlling Interruptions: How to Free Up an Hour A Day
VHS, 65 minutes, CareerTrack Publications, 1992
Excerpts from the program teach you how to block, delegate and prioritize interruptions so that everything gets handled and you can concentrate on your most important projects. You will learn which intrusions you can control, what to do about those you cannot, and techniques for controlling interruptions.

A Costly Proposition: Sexual Harassment at Work
VHS, 32 minutes BNA Communications, Inc., 1986
Video vignettes illustrate the complex issues that can arise in work relationships. Explores whether organizations can be liable, what steps various parties involved should take, and what could have been done to prevent the situation.

Countering the Conspiracy To Destroy Black Boys
VHS, 2 hours, African American Images, 1987
Hosted by Jawanza Kunjufu, this video discusses ways the schools, communities, and homes can help better prepare African American boys to succeed.

Creative Recruiting
VHS, 25 minutes, E.I. Video Productions, 1989
Video demonstrates different types of recruiting for employment in a business organization.

The Date Rape Backlash: The Media and the Denial of Rape
VHS, 60 minutes, The Media Education Foundation, 1994
Warning: The film contains violent and graphic language and imagery. This video confronts the issue of date rape on college campuses and how media in the U.S. have characterized the problem. Discusses the change in popular conceptions of rape, from 1987 when it was considered a serious problem with epidemic proportions, to 1993 when it became " rape hype." Examines Katie Roiphe's book The Morning After, as well as comments from bell hooks, Mary Koss, and other feminists and political conservatives. The video includes anonymous interviews with both rape survivors and "average" college men about definitions of rape and how 'the female perspective' is viewed.

Dealing with Diversity in the Classroom
VHS, 23 minutes
This video explains how demographic changes have shifted policy from "melting pot" assimilation to cultural pluralism. The video stresses the importance of understanding and respecting a student's culture. It discusses how to organize a classroom and curriculum to make students from different backgrounds feel welcome and equal.

Developing Interpersonal Competencies in Educational Leadership: Androgyny
VHS, 1 hour, University of Cincinnati, Bright Light Productions, 1981
This video describes the use of androgyny as a leadership technique for women, and teaches one how to develop skills for effective communication, confrontation, and facilitation.

DICEL Leadership
VHS, 28 minutes, University of Cincinnati, 1981
Video observes three women in educational leadership positions. Observes their typical meetings, demonstrates adaptive leadership behaviors, and gets feedback from other people about their leadership techniques.

Diversity Awards (Michigan State University) VHS, Broadcast/Photo, Division of University Relations. 1995-1999

Diversity Issues in Higher Education
VHS, 1 hour, Penn State Office of Educational Equity, 1997
The objective of this video is to create a set of modules to be used individually or collectively. Each deals with some aspects of advising or the classroom experiences of students who come from under-represented groups. Features dramatic vignettes based on reports and complaints about situations that took place at Penn State, as well as a discussion and analysis of the vignettes by a panel made up of PSU students, faculty, and staff

Diversity Issues in the Classroom
VHS, 48 minutes, Penn State Office of Educational Equity, 1997
The objective of this video is to create a set of modules to be used individually or collectively. Each deals with some aspects of advising or the classroom experiences of students who come from under-represented groups. Features dramatic vignettes based on reports and complaints about situations that took place at Penn State, as well as a discussion and analysis of the vignettes by a panel made up of PSU students, faculty, and staff.

Don't Go to Your Room ... and Other Affirmations of Empowerment for Women With Disabilities
VHS, 60 minutes, Education Development Center, 1988
This video deals with the concerns of women who have disabilities. Several women are interviewed and share their everyday experiences. The video focuses on empowerment, interviewing for jobs, social security issues, relationships, abuse, and self defense. (Please note that this video was produced in 1988, before the Americans with Disabilities act of 1990.)

Dream Worlds II: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
VHS, 56 minutes, Media Education Foundation, 1991 (Updated 1994)
This video illustrates and discusses representations of women in music video, and how these representations may influence the ways in which young men and women interact. In the "Dream World" of the music video, women are the epitome of male fantasy. They are perpetually sexually aroused, dependent on men to bring them happiness and satisfaction, and/or desire to be treated roughly or violently (even when a woman says "no," she means "yes.") Provides a new distance from images in music videos that have become so normalized in American culture that they are almost invisible. Written and narrated by a Sut Jhally, Professor of Communication at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "This film is a necessity for anyone working with young females who are still grappling for their identity as women."

The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde
2000, Profile Productions
This video by Jennifer Abod is about Audre Lorde's broad social vision and the translation of that vision into an historical transnational conference, which used her work, while celebrating her life.

Ethnic Notions
VHS, 58 minutes, 1990, California Newsreel
This video discusses negative depictions of African Americans from 1800s to World War I. Includes detailed histories of negative images, words, and stereotypes of Black Americans, and exposes the purposes those constructions served at specific historical moments in the U.S.

Evelyn Fox Keller
VHS, 30 minutes
This video relates the story of Evelyn Fox Keller, "a woman scientist in a man's world." Through interviews with Keller, the narrator discusses her work on the history of science and the relationship between gender and science.

Excellence & Diversity Awards Conference
VHS, 1990
This is a recording of the MSU IDEA awards ceremony for all University awards in diversity and excellence.

Excellence in Diversity Conference: Building a Multi-racial/multi-cultural University Community
VHS, 38 minutes, Michigan State University, 5/14/90
Speaker Cecilia Buiciaga discusses multicultural diversity in the University community.

Excellence in Diversity Conference: Higher Education Challenges & Solutions to Achieving Diversity
VHS, 43 minutes, Michigan State University, 5/14/90
Speaker Stanley Sue discusses the challenges higher education faces regarding diversity.

Excellence in Diversity Conference, Keynote Speaker Catharine Stimpson
VHS, Michigan State University, 1992
Catherine Stimpson discusses diversity issues.

The Fairer Sex?
VHS, 16 minutes, ABC News, 1993
ABC's "Prime Time Live" set out to discover whether there are daily differences in being a man and a woman in U.S. society, particularly in the workplace. This video contemplates how gender stereotypes are take for granted in our society. Also discusses the lack of legal support for women who have been discriminated against on the basis of gender.

The Famine Within
VHS, 1993, 90 minutes (WS)
This PBS special documents young women's obsessions with weight and appearance. It discusses the negative role of modeling agencies and media, physical differences between successful fashion models and the vast majority of young women in the U.S., and American women's general preoccupation with weight.

The Female Closet
VHS, 1998, 59 minutes (WS)
Centering in large part around the life and times of pioneering photographer Alice Austen, this video discusses the contributions of lesbians and other LBGT-identified individuals to creative processes that have shaped American culture.

Fifteen and Pregnant
VHS, 120 minutes, 1998
This Lifetime Original Movie examines the struggles a family faces when a fifteen year old becomes pregnant. When fifteen-year-old Tina becomes pregnant, it's another blow to an already shattered family life. Her parents are coping with her dad's infidelity. Tina's siblings are embarrassed by their sister's situation, and they become emotionally withdrawn. Over the course of the next nine months, Tina's pregnancy helps each of reach a deeper understanding of their own family.

Fight For Your Life
VHS, 1995
In terms of both funding and initiative, medical research on women trails far behind the studies dedicated to men and male bodies. This short video provides personal testimonies of five women faced with the reality of medical inequality. Documents the experiences of an African American woman with heart disease and a Native woman with Multiple Sclerosis. Other topics covered through interviews are women and HIV, clinical depression and other mental disorders, and osteoporosis. The video urges women to be forceful and aggressive in negotiating healthcare institutions. As one woman stated, "You have to be your own advocate."

Focus on Women: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
VHS, 2001, 29 minutes
This video features excerpts from the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Corporate Kickoff Breakfast on August 15, 2001. Dr. James Trosko from the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development examines the connection between genes and environment, and how each contributes to breast cancer incidence. He discusses how corporate funds are being used to understand, treat and prevent cancer, and specifically breast cancer.

Focus on Women: Panel Discussion of Backlash
VHS, 1992 (WS)
This two-part panel discussion of Susan Faludi's Backlash took place at Schuler's bookstore in 1992. Panelists are MSU faculty members Joyce Ladenson, Sharon Ramble, Marilyn Frye, and Lisa Fine.

Four Women in Science
VHS, 19 minutes, Education Development Center, 1978
The video highlights four women with careers in scientific fields. An astronomer, veterinarian, and two engineers share their experiences and advice for young women considering a future in science.

From One Prison...
VHS, 70 minutes, 1994
Told through the voices of four women serving life or long-term prison sentences for fighting back in self-defense against their abusive husbands or lovers, From One Prison exposes a legal system that blatantly discriminates against women, punishing and silencing them through indifference and aggressive cruelty. Shot within the prison itself, this intimate and powerful documentary presents women who are both articulate and dignified as they describe survival issues that extend from the domestic to the criminal justice spheres.

Gentleness is Strength
VHS, 29 minutes, 1990, Men Stopping Rape, Inc.
This video discusses men's role in preventing rape, the creation of an American "rape culture," the socialization of men toward violent behaviors, and skills for improving communication between men and women. It includes footage of rallies, workshops, dramatizations, and discussions sponsored by the Men Stopping Rape organization at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Get Real: Straight Talk About Women's Health
VHS, 27 minutes, U.S. Public Health Service.
The video portrays the typical activities, attitudes and reactions of young people on college campuses today and is meant to serve as an introduction to women's health issues and to stimulate further discussion.

Getting From Here to There
Audio, 11 minutes, 1 tape
This tape comes from the Women's Educational Equity Act Program and the US Department of Education.

Girls Around the World
VHS, 1998-99, 168 minutes (WS)
This compilation of short films from Women Make Movies, tells the stories of young women from various national, class, and religious backgrounds. Includes: "Anna of Benin" by Monique Phoba; "Daughters of War" by Maria Barea; "Don't Ask Why" by Sabiha Sumar; "Frontier" by Kaija Jurrikkala; "Heaven and Earth" by Pascale Schmidt.

The Global Assembly Line
VHS, 60 minutes, New Day Films, 1986 (WS)
Based in Mexico and the Philippines, this documentary film examines offshore assembly manufacture, its economic logic, and its consequences. The film documents the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and low wages and poor working conditions in overseas factories. It also examines the feminization of offshore assembly work, how managers preferentially hire young, unmarried teenagers and women. Finally, the film documents the rise of grassroots resistance to the conditions of work, how workers have organized, at great risk to themselves, and in so doing, have discovered new senses of empowerment and possibility.

Harassment in the Workplace
VHS, Purdue University, 1987
Vignettes explore sexual harassment between university employees. High Impact Leadership: How to be More than a Manager Audio, 4 hours, 4 tapes, 1990 Presenter Mark Sanborn discusses the difference between managers and leaders, how to make quick smart decisions, how to master skills in order to reach peak performance, and much more.

Hostages at Home: A Video on Domestic Violence
VHS, 53 minutes, KING Television (Karin Williams, Producer,) 1994.
This video challenges the notion that domestic violence "can't happen to me." Four women survivors tell of their journeys to personal safety, emotional and physical health, and self- reliance after leaving their abusers.

How to Delegate Work and Ensure It's Done Right
Audio, 4 hours, 4 tapes, 1988
An audio seminar by Presenter Dick Lohr that will teach you how to determine which projects to delegate, when and to whom. He also discusses how to keep control without "pulling the strings," picking the right person for a delegated job, and many more techniques.

Intent vs. Impact
VHS, 49 minutes, BNA Communications, 1988
Training program on preventing and resolving issues of sexual harassment in the workplace. Designed for management personnel.

The Invisible Line on Campus
VHS, 30 minutes, Sepler & Associates, 1994
Sexual harassment is a problem related to the campus climate. "The Invisible Line on Campus" is not a program which focuses on the laws regarding sexual harassment, but on individual responsibility for campus climate. While the law tells us what we cannot and should not do, this program focuses far more on what people should and can do to build positive relationships and to prevent sexual harassment and violence. There are three different versions of this program, each geared for a different audience. They include: a faculty version, one for staff, and a third specifically for students. Each comes with a facilitator's guide.

Iron Jawed Angels
VHS, 120 minutes, HBO, 2004
This dramatization of the Women's Suffrage movement recounts a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920.

Jack Cade's Nightmare
VHS, 27 minutes, BNA Communications, 1993
This video takes a look at the legal consequences and mistakes made by a new supervisor in a company. It discusses the increasing number of labor laws and shows that a supervisor needs more than just common sense to do the job.

The Joy that Kills
3/4" cassette, 56 minutes (WS) No description available.

Killing Us Softly 3
VHS, 2000, 34 minutes (WS)
In this follow-up to "Killing Us Softly" and Still Killing Us Softly," Jean Kilbourne discusses if and how images of women in advertising have changed over the last twenty years. She uses over 160 ads and commercials to illustrate cultural constructions of women, inviting the viewer to look at these familiar images in new ways.

Land of O's - Competing Through Diversity
VHS, 28 minutes, Goodmeasure Direct
This video links diversity with productivity, competitiveness, and bottomline results. Its practical, solution-oriented approach shows how to take a diverse workforce and leverage its inherent differences to the advantage of both the organization and the individual.

Lessons From History: A Celebration in Blackness
VHS, 1987, African American Images
This video presentation discusses the importance of cultural identity and pride in the history of African Americans. The video has two parts, the first part geared toward elementary school-age children, and the second portion intended for middle and high school students. It is hosted by Jawanza Kunjufu.

Light in the Shadows
VHS, 45 minutes, World Trust Educational Servicres, Inc., 2003
American women from diverse cultural backgrounds meet several times over the course of a year to discuss the dynamics that make understanding and change difficult even when there is a commitment to creating strong bonds across racial and cultural divides. The issues in this video are examples of what must be addressed when worldviews and experiences interfere with creating an equitable human society. Produced and directed by Shakti Butler, PhD.

A Little Respect: Gay Men, Lesbians, & Bisexuals on Campus
VHS, 24 minutes Rutgers University, 1990
Video discusses gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals on college campuses. Interviews gay and straight students. Explores the different experiences gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have on college campuses, including incidences of blatant homophobia.

Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change
VHS, 2000, 57 minutes (WS)
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) gender inequalities in multiple societies and institutions around the world. The video looks in particular at a situation in Morocco, where women are often denied basic needs of health care and education, as well as legal and civil rights. It also examines a situation in Botswana, where 1 in 3 people are likely to die from HIV infections - especially women and young children.

Long Shadows: The Life of Haru Reischauer
VHS, 21 minutes (WS)
This is the story of a first-generation Japanese American, Haru Matsukata Reischauer, and her struggle to negotiate both Japanese and American culture and society. Reischauer's bi-cultural life earned her some fame and historical import when her husband, Edwin O. Reischauer, was named American Ambassador to Japan by President John F. Kennedy.

Mackinaw: The Complete Video Tour Guide
VHS, 15 minutes
The sights and sounds of the Straits of Mackinac come to life in this narrated video guide. You'll be taken on a fascinating tour of the area's legendary points of interest and natural beauty, which have made Mackinaw City one of Michigan 's favorite vacation destinations. Discover the charm of Mackinaw, the town that loves company.

MammaCare Method of Breast Self-Examination
VHS, 44 minutes
This is an instructional video that comes with a model of a breast that gives women an idea of what a 'lump' may feel like. Includes a step-by-step method to effective breast self-examination. Please remember to request the silicone model when you pick up the video.

Managing Diversity With or Without Affirmative Action
VHS, W. Terrell Jones, Deputy Vice Provost, Penn State University
This video discusses ideas on how one can deal effectively with diversity in systems that may or may not have affirmative action programs.

Managing For Excellence
VHS, 57 minutes, Michigan State University, 1989
Highlights from a half-day seminar held at MSU in October 1988. Highlights of the four seminar speakers and a question-and-answer session. Discusses employee participation, employee/employer communication, employee recognition, and fair treatment.

Managing Today's Nonprofit Organization
Audio, 4 tapes, 1992
These tapes provide practical ways to increase contributions in a declining market, maximize your board's contribution, meld paid personnel and volunteers into a cohesive effective staff, and provide a predictable revenue stream to your organization.

MANRRS: Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
VHS, 10 minutes
This video highlights the importance of agriculture and natural resources, and how MANRRS helps to advance underrepresented cultures in these fields. The goal of MANRRS is to increase cultural diversity in these fields and to foster fellowship. MANRRS offers annual conferences and career fairs.

Mass Transit Street Theater,VHS
This video highlights the experiences of members of a street theater group from the Bronx, New York, called Mass Transit, as they portray a number of issues, including homelessness and women's experiences.

Men of Color Teleconference
VHS, 120 minutes, Black Issues, 1994
The teleconference was intended to provide an interactive forum for the discussion of issues that men of color face in higher education. It opens a bridge of understanding between all men of color, both detailing obstacles that many men of color face, and offering answers and strategies to combat the problems. This video was designed to enhance upward educational mobility.

Menopause is More Than Just Hot Flashes
VHS, Michigan Public Health Institute
This video addresses many of the issues and related medical symptoms of menopause, and possible options for 'treatment.' Focuses on Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Mentoring For Ourselves and Our Sisters
VHS, 1994
This is a recording of the Michigan Network of Women's Centers conference. The keynote speaker is Dr. Patricia Coleman Burns, who addresses connections between women's movements and civil rights movements in the mid-century U.S. She offers a definition and model of mentoring, ideas of how to change the traditional mentoring relationship to one of reciprocal responsibility, and strategies developing for mentoring programs.

Minorities in the College Classroom
VHS, 26 minutes, Michigan State University, 1986
This program illustrates communication problems between faculty and racial-ethnic minority students at the college level. Also illustrates how these problems can lead to learning difficulties by creating distance between teacher and student, producing distrust, and eroding the self-confidence of students. The ultimate goal of the video is to sensitize faculty to student needs in order to facilitate learning.

Minority Women Perspective Teleconference
VHS, 2 hours, 1990
Focus is on women of color, careers, and the importance of career preparation, skills and resources.

Miriam's Daughters Now
VHS, 29 minutes (WS)
This video describes various feminist bonding rituals, including rituals that many Jewish women act out, and explains the importance of these rituals to the women involved.

Mirror Mirror
VHS, 14 minutes, Intermedia, 1994
The video discusses the feelings and viewpoints of several women who have experienced eating disorders or who have helped someone else deal with an eating disorder. The video shows interviews with women from college campuses and their struggles with anorexia and bulimia. Good for stimulating discussion of warning signs and how to cope with eating disorders.

More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter
VHS, 30 minutes
This short movie deals with the struggles of a young lesbian throughout the coming-out process. The movie highlights the struggles of her family members in coming to terms with her identity, threats of violence from peers, and typical homophobic and anti-gay responses from the people around her.

Multicultural Workplace
VHS, 38 minutes, MTI Film, 1990
This video discusses the role of cultural difference in the workplace. It depicts a series of employee interactions illustrating how cultural differences lead to different interpretations of events in the workplace. This video advocates understanding and cultivating cultural differences in the work environment.

My FeminismVHS, 58 minutes, 1997 No description available at this time.

Nappy: the film
VHS, 28 minutes, 1998
This film is an insightful documentary that explores the often complex relationship between Black women and Western ideals of beauty, a struggle that continues to write its history on the body. This film features narratives of women of various ages and backgrounds, including a European-American whose adoption of an African-American child suddenly thrusts her into an intensely political arena.

Never Too Thin
VHS, 57 minutes, Landmark Media, 1993
This video discusses the obsession with thinness in the U.S., and how women both evaluate themselves and are judged by others according to their body size and shape. Explores how popular standards of thinness have become more extreme and more rigid over time.

New Directions
VHS, 78 minutes, 1997-2000
Three videos by Joanne Burke, entitled "Women of Zimbabwe," "Women of Guatemala," and "Women of Thailand."

Night Voices
VHS, 1980, 15 minutes (WS)
This film is a series of interviews with sex workers, who discuss their work and how they feel about it.

No Longer Silent
VHS, 57 minutes (WS)
Inspired by the ideas of the women in it, this film discusses how U.S. society views women and women' roles, and how the media contributes to negative images of women. The narrator of this film is involved in helping men and women organize and fight for their rights.

Not A Love Story: A film about Pornography
VHS, 69 minutes, National Film Board of Canada, 1981
Like prostitution, the participation in the making of hard-core pornographic films is considered a victimless crime. Canadian documentary filmmaker Bonnie S. Klein argues that this is not the case, and to prove her thesis she offers case studies of young women whose lives were ruined by working in X-rated films. Supporting Klein's argument is commentary from such renowned feminists as Kate Millett and Robyn Morgan.

Not a Sanctuary
VHS, 17 minutes, University of Maryland, 1986
Video uses dramatizations and police interviews to explore the problem of sexual violence on campus. There is a primary focus on strategies for prevention, the perspectives of law enforcement officers, and the importance of reporting sexual violence to authorities.

NOW's 20th Anniversary
VHS, 1986, 2 hours (WS)
This film commemmorates twenty years of the National Organization for Women. It celebrates the victories, mourns the defeats, imagines the future, and reflects on the history of the organization -- all from the perspective of NOW's 1986 vision for the future of feminist movements.

One Man's/Person's Struggle with Gender-Biased Language
VHS, 37 minutes Bowling Green State University, 1994
Gender-biased language unnecessarily differentiates between women and men, perpetuating discriminatory attitudes and practices. Examples of gender-biased language are denying women the right to name themselves, using sex to differentiate job titles, and using referents that deny self-esteem, withhold adulthood, and exclude women. This program portrays one person's struggle with accepting new ways of looking at language. Our "struggler" views various scenes in which gender-biased language is used, and then he discusses these experiences with experts on language and diversity. The objective is to foster an awareness of problems associated with gender-biased language and to encourage the use of alternative word choices. Video discusses types and origins of gender-biased language, and explains the effects of gender-biased language on individuals, society, and the workplace.

One Person's Struggle with Gender-Biased Language Part 2
Audio, 1 tape, 1994
This audiotape is a companion piece to the videotape "One Man's Struggle with Gender-Biased Language." On the tape, Dr. Janet Parks defines gender-biased language, explains why it is inappropriate, presents reasons for resistance to change, and suggests alternative word choices. This information is useful for everyone interested in clearer communication and improved human relations.

One Of Our Own
VHS, 30 minutes, Dartnell, 1987
This video tells a dramatic story about what can happen in the workplace when an employee contracts HIV. It was intended to dissipate the fear among workers about contracting HIV in the workplace, at a time when public information about HIV and AIDS was both limited and fraught with myths and stereotypes. One Woman, One Vote VHS, 1995, 1 hour 57 minutes (WS) This film is a historical perspective of women's suffrage movement in the U.S.

OUT Look
VHS, Penn State Office of Educational Equity, 1997, 17 minutes
This video deals specifically with issues of climate for lesbian, bi, gay, and transgendered identified people on the campus of Penn State University. Reoccurring themes include harassment, coming out, and violence.

The Perfect Body
VHS, 14 minutes, Intermedia, 1994
The video explores cultural messages and personal pressures women feel to look "perfect." In the video, four college women share their struggles with body image and discuss the pressures they have felt from media, men, each other, and U.S. culture at large.

The Perfect Place for Perfect Beginnings: Ingham's Women & Children's Center
VHS, 11, Ingham Regional Medical Center, 2001
This video is an advertisement for the updated Women and Children's Center at Ingham Regional Medical Center. Includes a virtual tour.

Personal Safety at MSU: AOP 2000
VHS, 5:19 minutes
This short video shows the resources available on campus for people who are dealing with issues such as sexual assault, relationship violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. The resources mentioned are confidential, free, and nearby.

Playing the Game: A Video on Date Rape
VHS, 16 minutes, 1991, Intermedia, Inc. and Motionmedia, Inc.
The events surrounding a date rape in a college setting are dramatized in this video. It presents the perspectives of the rape survivor, the rapist, and their friends. Using this format, the common misperceptions about rape are addressed and dispelled, and topics for discussion are raised.

Positive Confrontation
VHS, 17 minutes, Michigan State University, 1989
This video is designed to increase viewer awareness about positive and negative approaches to managing interpersonal conflict. Also gives tips on how to improve your ability to successfully confront others with whom you disagree.

Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Management Responsibility -- The Risk
VHS, 29 minutes, BNA Communications, 1991
This video discusses steps for employers to take to foster a work environment that discourages sexual harassment. Also details appropriate ways to respond to any complaint regarding sexual harassment.

Preventing Sexual Harassment: A Shared Responsibility
VHS, 13:25 minutes, BNA Communications Inc., 1992
This video is designed to increase workers' awareness about sexual harassment. Some examples of sexual harassment are addressed, as well as actions that an employee can take to remedy a problematic situation.

Race Against Prime Time
VHS, 58 minutes, California Newsreel, 1985
This video presentation discusses television coverage of riots in the Black community in the city of Miami in the early 1980s.

Race and Assessment: Measurement and Legal Implications
VHS, 62 minutes, R.A.C.E. 2002
Racial differences in assessment processes continue to point to the questionable efficacy of such practices. Dr. Sedlacek is known for his emphasis on the use of non-cognitive variables rather than traditional standardized assessments. In this address, Dr. Sedlacek discusses findings from research involving non-cognitive variables.

Race, Class and Gender: Revisioning the Social Science with Bonnie Thornton Dill
3/4" cassette and VHS, 1990, 41 minutes (WS)
Bonnie Thorton Dill discusses the challenges of race and gender within the social sciences, overcoming these challenges, creating scholarship to advance social sciences and women, and the concept of race, class, and gender studies.

Rape Under the Influence: Sexual Assault on Campus
VHS, August 2000, 30 minutes
Focuses discussion on the realities of date rape when alcohol and drugs are used. Viewers see the devastation caused a young victim by a violent gang rape, hear from a police detective committed to pursuing serial acquaintance rapists, and share in the video discussion as college students talk about sexual assault on campus. Incoming freshmen will learn from upperclassmen to recognize danger signs and learn ways to help prevent assault.

Responding to Rape
VHS, 30 minutes, Intermedia, Inc. and KDN Videoworks Inc., 1992
A discussion of rape with rape survivors and experts on safety and rape issues. The myths surrounding rape are dispelled and supportive suggestions are offered for rape survivors, their friends, and families.

The Road To Brown
VHS, 50 minutes, California Newsreel, 1989
This video targets all audiences with the purpose of illustrating the story of institutional segregation and the legal campaign against it. It is also a moving tribute to lawyer Charles Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." Ruth Hubbard- In a Science along Reconstructured... 3/4" cassette, 1990, 35 minutes (WS) No description available.

Satellite to Success
VHS, 5 hrs. 37 min., National Association For Female Executives, 1990
This video is a taped teleconference of the National Association for Female Executives. It features a series of lectures and interviews designed to inform and inspire women in the business world. Lecture topics include presenting a confident image, listening effectively, successful negotiating, and relieving stress.

Savage Cycle
VHS, 29 minutes, Intermedia, Inc. and Lakewood Living Productions, 1990
A look at domestic violence through the eyes of its perpetrators and survivors. Interviews and expert commentary are used to explore the myths and misconceptions surrounding domestic violence.

Science for Life: Do It Yourself!
VHS, 14 minutes, University of Michigan Center for Education of Women, 1993
No description available.

Seize the Power: A Lifetime Challenge to the Women of America
VHS, 2 hours, Lifetime, 1992
A live, prime-time special hosted by ABC's "20/20" correspondent Lynn Sherr. The two hour special also features ABC News and National Public Radio reporter Cokie Roberts. Video details candidates' views on issues affecting women.

Seneca Reflections: Celebrating 150 Years of Women's Rights
VHS, 1998, 24 minutes (WS)
A reflection back on the 1848 Convention for Women's Rights and its significance today. Perspectives from participants, keynote speakers, women's studies scholars and historical performers. Commentators include Betty Friedan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donna Shalala, Sally Roesch Wagner, Judy Wellman, Coline Jenkins-Sahlin, Karen Staser, and others. This film is a rare, personal tribute to the remarkable women -- past and present -- whose lives have furthered the cause of women's rights.

Sex Equity in the College Classroom
VHS, 28 minutes, N.A.K. Production Associates, 1984
This video explores the issue of gender inequality in the college classroom. Research is revealed on sex bias from elementary to post secondary institutions, and patterns of gender inequity are brought to the attention of college professors.

Sexual Assault Resources at Michigan State University
VHS, 15 minutes
This video is a dramatization of an incident of date rape/sexual assault. Includes steps to take if you are assaulted and an overview of the resources that MSU provides for prevention and care.

Sexual Harassment: A New Look at an Old Problem
VHS, 31 minutes, Penn State
Through short dramas, this video discusses relationships between men and women working together with the hopes of leaving viewers better prepared to resolve problems. The vignettes examine situations dealing with gender, race, and the role of colleagues pertaining to sexual harassment on college and university campuses.

Sexual Harassment: Building Awareness on Campus
VHS, 20 minutes, Media Education Foundation, 1995
This video examines the need for education concerning sexual harassment in a collegiate environment. Divided into five short segments, the film includes: the definition of sexual harassment, the intent of the action vs. the impact on the recipient, ways to avoid or deal with unwanted attention, the issue of consensual relationships between students and professors, and looking into the future.

Sexual Harassment: Chilling the Campus Climate
VHS, 120 minutes Bernice Sandler, Speaker, Michigan State University, 1993
Dr. Bernice Sandler is a Senior Associate with the Washington-based Center for Women Policy Studies where she writes and consults with universities and colleges on promoting equity for women on campus. In her presentation, Dr. Sandler discusses how women are treated differently by both men and women in ways that lessen their participation in the workplace. Dr. Sandler shares strategies for dealing with these challenges.

Sexual Harassment: Prevention, Recognition, and Correction
VHS & Guide, 25 minutes, 1993
A video-based training program with printed handout for managers and employees, designed to help managers identify and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace and minimize liability. It covers multiple types of sexual harassment, as well as employer liability under Federal and state laws.

Sexual Harassment: Serious Business
VHS and Leader's Guide, 25 minutes Advantage Media Inc., Chatsworth, CA, May 1993
OBJECTIVE: To promote open communication, enabling all employees to work in a comfortable, healthy environment. To show how offensive behavior creates a hostile environment for co-workers. To demonstrate how office flirtations hurt those directly involved as well as the "team." To learn how to investigate sexual harassment complaints quickly, accurately and with as much confidentiality as possible. To realize the consequences that false accusations can have on an organization. To emphasize the importance or respect and professionalism in the workplace. Key points addressed include: the impact of a hostile work environment on the "team;" the consequences of third-party harassment; dealing with quid quo harassment; confronting the harasser; changing behavior in the workplace; the effects of workplace flirtations; the importance of professionalism; proper reporting of complaints; investigation procedures; handling false accusations; and communication and respect for co-workers.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Definition and Defense
VHS, 30 minutes, Michigan State Chamber of Commerce, 1991
This educational video, designed for business managers and supervisors, provides practical and legal guidelines on dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace. Included also is a special section on sex stereotyping as a form of discrimination. Featuring a nationally-acclaimed employment law attorney, the program includes a round-table discussion with business representatives and dramatizations of real-life situations.

Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Proactive Approach Toward Prevention
VHS, 20 minutes, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1991
Video discusses sexual harassment on campus and in the workplace.

Sexual Stereotyping and Gender Conflict
VHS, 1 hour, 35 minutes
Michele Paludi, Presenter, Director of Women's Studies, Hunters College, 1992 A videotaped lecture on sexual harassment in college and in the workplace. Dispels myths of sexual harassment. Focuses on behavioral definitions of sexual harassment, and its psychological impact. Suggest methods of handling complaints within institutional hierarchies.

Shattering the Silence: The Case of Minority Faculty
VHS, California Newsreel, 86 minutes, 1997
This video offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty. It tells the stories of eight pioneering scholars of color. As we watch them teach, mentor, and conduct research, we realize in concrete terms how a diverse faculty enriches traditional disciplines and helps create a more inclusive campus environment.

Skin Deep
VHS, 53 minutes, Iris Films, 1995
The video chronicles the journey of a diverse group of college students as they examine their deeply held attitudes and feelings about race and society's barriers. The video depicts interviews, scenes from real life, and a weekend retreat of transracial dialogue.

Slim Hopes
VHS, 30 minutes, Media Education Foundation, 1995 (2)
Jean Kilbourne is the creator of the film Still Killing Us Softly and a popular lecturer on college campuses. Using examples of over 120 ads from magazines and T.V., this film offers a new way to think about demoralizing and life-threatening eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

Smarter Together
VHS, 32 minutes, BNA Communications, 1993
This video shows how women and men communicate in the workplace. Discusses traditional and contemporary values men and women might share about each other and the workplace. Video offers many examples of negative situations which occur in the workplace. Interviews various individuals in different workplaces who give their thoughts on male-female interactions. The video sometimes buys into the stereotypes it attempts to explore, for instance, by assuming that women will have a "gentler" managerial style than men.

The Smell of Burning Ants
VHS, 21 minutes, Jay Rosenblatt Films
A hauntingly artistic account of the pains and trauma of growing up male, this video evocatively presents the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure en route to manhood. The sacred dismissal "boys will be boys" evolves into a chilling realization that many boys are becoming angry, destructive, emotionally disabled men socialized by fear, power, force, and shame from early childhood well into their adult lives.

Something About the Women
3/4" cassette, 1985, 40 minutes (WS)
No description available.

Still Burning: Part 1: Campus Administrators Confront Ethnoviolence
VHS, 17 minutes, UMBC Productions, 1989
Video shows four different simulations of ethnic violence on a college campus. The video gives suggestions to administrators on what they should do when this type of violence occurs and offers advice on how to prevent it.

Still Burning: Part II: Ethnoviolence in the Campus Community
VHS, 22 min. Instructional Media Resources/UMBC, 1989
This video addresses the issue of ethnic violence from a student perspective. It presents dramatizations to illustrate definitions of ethnic violence, and student interviews to offer varied perspectives.

Still Killing Us Softly
VHS, 1987, 22 min., Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
The sequel to "Killing Us Softly." A videotaped lecture that deals with negative depictions of women in the advertising media, images of violence, and sexism. (See also "Killing Us Softly 3")

Straight White Men and Me
VHS, 2001, 24 minutes
Antonia Kao explores the Brave New World of straight, white men in this revealing, humorous and often poignant new film. Antonia is a first generation Chinese-American woman who spent several years as an activist lesbian woman-of-color and has since rejoined society's mainstream. She entered Film School at the University of Southern California and she finds herself for the first time in her life in the company of many straight men. In an effort to interact she interviews several who represent stereotypes of straight white men. She interacts with these men in an effort to move beyond the stereotypes and see what it's really like to be a S.W.M.

Strangers in Good Company
VHS, 1990, 100 minutes (WS)
A Canadian film that depicts the coming together of a group of women. When a bus trip takes a detour, these women need to stick together. This is their story of survival, the power of women, and the connections they made.

Street Sex
VHS, 1989 (WS)
Real-life accounts from sex workers in Detroit. They discuss prostitution, drugs, and the law.

The Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adooption
VHS, 20 minutes, New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children, Inc. and PhotoSynthesis Productions, 1998
Captivating exposition of the transracial adoptive experience, as explored from the perspectives of adoptees, adoptive parents, and the professionals who work with them. The video uses real-life experiences and interviews to reveal diverse views on the issue.

Taking on the Boys Club
VHS, 17 minutes
This powerful video documents women actively fighting for equality in the workplace. Two highly-educated, acclaimed, and professional women -- one a neurosurgeon and the other an attorney -- discuss the ways in which they overcame sexual discrimination and harassment from the beginnings of their careers. The video also discusses at length the professional "glass ceiling" often encountered by women in the workplace.

A Tale Of "O": On Being Different
VHS, 27 minutes, Goodmeasure, Inc., 1993
A computer animated video that shows what happens to any new or different kind of person in a group and how the situation can be managed. Comes with training manual.

Talking About Race Part 1
VHS, 12 minutes, Iris Films, 1994
The video stimulates discussion of race issues by having students from three universities share their perspectives on self-separation, climate for talking about race on campus, discrimination, affirmative action policies, and individual responsibility for change.

Talking About Race Part 2
VHS, 13 minutes, Iris Films, 1994
23 college students support and challenge one another through discussions of individual responsibility, feeling separated from each other, understanding, and the shift from awareness to action.

Talking 9 to 5
VHS, 29 minutes, Charthouse International Learning.
Dr. Deborah Tannen explores conversational gender differences that start in early childhood and affect our productivity in the workplace. Meaningful stories and real-life examples show the power of understanding conversational styles, and how better understanding will dramatically improve your workplace.

Team Building: How to Movitate and Manage People
Audio, 4 hours, 25 minutes, 4 tapes, 1991
These tapes feature presenter Mark Sanborn as he discusses how to turn your team into a "Can Do" Team. He talks about the 4 C's of effective team members, ways to recruit team members, how to encourage teams to take risks, and much more.

Teen Awareness/Sexual Harassment
VHS, 23 minutes, New Dimension Media, Inc.
Defines sexual harassment and gives facts about it. It also includes dramatizations and group discussions about issues raised in the dramatizations.

Tell Someone
3/4", 15 minutes, Staff Version, University of Michigan Focuses on sexual harassment.

Tell Someone
3/4", 13 minutes, Student Version, University of Michigan Focuses on sexual harassment.

Through My Lens
VHS, 27:10 minutes
This video, from the University of Michigan, shows the struggles of academic women of color, such as isolation, tokenism within one's field, and discouragement about chosen areas of research.

Today's Money Diet
VHS, 30 minutes, NBC, 1994
In 1994, NBC's "The Today Show" took a look at how people should budget and save their money. A short segment of each show for a week was dedicated toward helping people balance their money. Discusses various topics, from retirement plans to impulse spending.

Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity
VHS, 82 minutes, Media Education Foundation, 1999
This is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between images of masculinity in popular culture (from Howard Stern to Stone Cold Steve Austin; Good Will Hunting to Boyz in the Hood; Garth Brooks to hip hop) and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. Great for generating classroom discussion.

UMBC: Yes We Can
VHS, 27 minutes, 1989
A group of African American men enter the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore College. The program is geared for excellence in mathematics and science. Each student tells why it is important for them to succeed and why they made the right choice.

Unity and Diversity: Empowering Women to Explore Our Differences
Audiotapes, 1991 (WS)
This two-tape series contains edited selections from the 1990 Women in Context Conference. Conference directors invite women to reexamine the stories of their lives in the context of exploring differences, as they themselves reconstruct their personal histories - the history of their awareness of the interacting effects of gender, race and class. . . the effects of ethnicity, physical ability, age, sexuality, and spiritual consciousness. Selected lectures include: Marianne Ault-Riche and Harriet Goldhor Lerner, "Reflections on Differences"; Pat Callair, "Building Unity Out of Difference"; Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, "Transforming Knowledge"; Barbara Smith, "Making the Connections: Building Revolutionary Multi-issued Feminism"; Nydia Garcia Preto, "Hispanic Women: Putting Down the Cross"; Susan B. Wilson, "Of Barriers, Bonds, and Bravery: A Recipe for Cross-Cultural Collaboration"; Meredith Titus, "The Challenge of Physical Compromise"; Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Reading Maps: Poetry and the Road to Different Powers."

An Unstill Life
VHS, 15 minutes, 1994 (WS)
This video is a recording of Alison MacGaugh as she takes the viewer through her paintings. It is also a narrative of her works and her history, told through acquaintances.

Venus Boyz
VHS, 104 minutes, 2001
A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for Venuz Boys, an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where females become men -- some for a night, others for their whole lives. What motivates them? What defines gender? This eye opening film approaches some of these questions, while it surveys this little known world.

Voicing Psychology II
3/4" cassette, 1990, 25 minutes (WS)
No description available. The Way Home VHS, 1998, 92 minutes (3) This video spotlights eight councils of women: Indigenous women, Latino women, Multi-racial women, African-American women, European-American women, Jewish women, Asian women, and Arab women. The women in the eight councils discuss their cultural experiences and how their racial identities shape their lives.

West Coast Crones
VHS, 1990, 28 minutes (WS)
This video is glimpse into the lives of nine older lesbians fighting their own internalized battle of ageism as well as the battle of ageism in a society which values women for their bodies or their ability to reproduce. These women are a support group of white, mostly middle class Old Lesbians, who all have stories to share.

When Food Becomes an Obsession: Overcoming Eating Disorders
VHS, 28 minutes, Hourglass Films, 1994
This video discusses eating disorders with medical professionals and women who are recovering from eating disorders. It discusses warning signs and long-term effects of eating disorders, and includes personal testimonies from survivors.

When A Kiss is not Just a Kiss: Sex Without Consent
VHS, 36 minutes, Intermedia, 1994
The video presents a program to a live audience of college students in which a situation of date rape occurs. At the end of the skit, the actors stay in character and interact with the audience in dialogue to discuss each character's view of what happened.

Who Moved My Cheese?
VHS, 13:10, DoubleTake Productions
This movie, based on the best-selling business book by Spencer Johnson, M.D., is an animated parable about how we can adapt to change and reach our goals in work and in life.

Why Schools Fail Girls
VHS, 13 minutes, ABC news
Produced by ABC News for Lifetime Magazine, this video examines gender bias in education and presents some strategies being tested to attenuate it. Lifetime Magazine visits kids and teachers in the Miami Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Willmar 8
VHS (WS)
Documents a 1977 strike in Willmar, Minnesota. When women bank employees realized that men were moving up on the employment ladder and they were not, the women picketed every day in the dead of winter, demanding equal treatment.

A Winning Balance
VHS, 34 minutes, BNA Communications, 1993
Designed to be a highly interactive training session this program's objectives are: (1) to realize the impact that today's changing demographics have on the classroom/workplace; (2) to understand the connection between diversity present and future success; (3) to realize the important role people play in creating a classroom/workplace in which people of all cultures and backgrounds have a chance to succeed; (4) to identify individual personal attitudes and behaviors toward differences; (5) to recognize how attitudes toward differences influence interactions with others; and (6) to act as a Diversity Change Agent to create a respectful classroom/workplace.

A Woman's Health
VHS, 57 minutes, 1995
This video examines health issues like smoking and cancer, heart disease, clinical depression, menopause, domestic violence, and breast cancer, and discusses their specific implications for women. Rita Moreno hosts, emphasizing the differences in health care for men and women. Viewers will be hard-pressed to walk away without feeling the impact of the personal testimonies and startling statistics presented.

Women: An Action Plan
VHS, 30 minutes, Penn State University, 1983
Video discusses pseudo-affirmative action between men and women.

Women and Money
VHS, 1 hour, L.P.I. Inc., 1991
Encourages control, security, and confidence in money matters. The video provides practical down-to-earth strategies. Women and Science: Issues and Resources 3/4" cassette, 1984, 31 minutes (WS) No description available.

Women of Color in Higher Education
VHS, 120 minutes, Cox, Matthews & Associates, Inc.
Video offers a provocative and insightful look at the critical issues relevant to the status of women of color, a frequently overlooked segment of higher education communities. Program topics include: equity issues, the academic, social and professional environment for women, student experiences, women in leadership positions, the glass ceiling faced by women of color, and much more.

Women Matter: Celebrating Women Achieving Excellence with Dr. Gendolyn Norell 5/1/02
VHS, 78 minutes, Michigan State University, May 1, 2002
This video documents the 2002 Women's Resource Center program 'Women Matter' which recognizes women at MSU achieving excellence. Also includes speech by Dr. Gwendolyn Norell on the role of women at MSU throughout the university's history.

Women Strike Back
VHS, 46 minutes, Multi Media Marketing, Inc., 1989
Video offers dozens of ways a woman can help protect herself from being sexually assaulted. Strategies include prevention behaviors, verbal tactics, and physical defense.

Women Today: with Betty Friedan
VHS, 30 minutes, City University Television, 1991
A conversation with Betty Friedan about the women's movement and about being named one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century.

Women Today: with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Ann Roiphe
VHS, 30 minutes City University Television, 1991
Video discusses the status of the Women's Movement.

Women Today: with Marlene Sanders
VHS, 30 minutes, City University Television, 1991
Video discusses women in television, particularly the news.

Women Today: Theatre
VHS, 30 minutes, City University Television, 1991
Video discusses women in theatre with guest panelists Wendy Wassetein, Susan Shulman and Julia Miles. Topics discussed include acceptance of women in theatre professions, women's treatment in university theatre programs, perceptions of women's financial abilities in producing, and depiction of women's experience through theatre.

Women Who Have Made a Difference
VHS, 15:50 (2)
This video highlights the YWCA Diana Awards.

Women's Lives Teleconference 3/27/2000
VHS, 120 minutes
This video of the teleconference examines issues in higher education such as climate, ways to promote gender equity in higher education, and the ways in which feminism has grown as an academic discipline. The video also shows the ways in which colleges and universities around the country are dealing with advancements in technologies and commitment to diversity.

Women's Lives Teleconference 3/29/2000
VHS, 120 minutes
This video of the teleconference examines issues in higher education such as climate, ways to promote gender equity in higher education, and the ways in which feminism has grown as an academic discipline. The video also shows the ways in which colleges and universities around the country are dealing with advancements in technologies and commitment to diversity.

Working Women in Multicultural Contexts: Relational Dilemmas and Opportunities
Audio. Single tape that discusses issues raised by women working in multicultural contexts. This tape is a conference from the Stone Center.

Working Women Summit Teleconference
VHS, 1997
This video discusses many issues working women in America must face everyday.

World of Light - A Portrait of May Sarton
3/4" cassette, 30 minutes (WS)
No description available.

The Wrong Idea
VHS and Manual, 20 minutes, Pennsylvania State University, 1988
Cross-cultural training program about sexual harassment in academic environments.

You are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus
VHS, 60 minutes, 1989, Indiana University
Portrays experiences of sexual harassment, followed by discussion of issues portrayed.

Yudie
VHS, 35 minutes (WS)
The autobiographical story of a Jewish Immigrant woman named Yudie and her reflection on life. This is her story of her arrival in the U.S., her experiences with Americanization, the living conditions in Jewish immigrant communities, and her journey toward a better life for herself.

(WS) denotes that video was donated by the Women's Studies Program