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Maybe Baby
This documentary is about women, baby love, the fertility gamble, and the changing face of the American family. It features the interwoven stories of four single women in their '30s and '40s as they pursue pregnancy through the world of Assisted Reproductive Technology, a multi-billion dollar industry on the cutting edge of medicine and science. It follows the "emotional endurance test" of getting pregnant, staying pregnant, sperm banks, Reproductive Endocrinologist's, fertility drugs, miscarriage, and in some cases, finally having a baby. While examining the experiences of these women, it also addresses the ramifications--social and personal--of single motherhood by choice. (60 min)
| January 25, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
Fem Flicks is a joint effort of the Women's Studies Program and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
Arresting Ana
Sarah, a French college student runs a "pro-Ana" blog, part of a global online community of young women sharing tips on living with anorexia. Valerie Boyer is a passionate French National Assembly legislator proposing a groundbreaking bill to ban these online forums, issuing hefty fines and two-year prison sentences to their members. This documentary offers an unprecedented access into anorexia's hidden underground and considers how legal and free-speech issues are contested in a new media landscape. (25 min)
| February 29, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
Fem Flicks is a joint effort of the Women's Studies Program and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
In the Name of Love
What's motivating the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men? From the gray skies of St. Petersburg to sunny California ranches, we see the financial and emotional pros and cons of exporting one's heart. The film grapples with the tremendous economic challenges and difficult decisions facing Russian women today. (58 min)
| March 28, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
Fem Flicks is a joint effort of the Women's Studies Program and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
The Line
The Line is a documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence, and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault often gets framed and understood in the wider culture. (24 min)
| April 25, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
Fem Flicks is a joint effort of the Women's Studies Program and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
