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Women’s Centre

SPRING L984 - March

 

[loon Hour Film and Discussion Series

 

March 6

March 13

March 20

Women in Sports 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Room 2803
Women in Sports explodes the myths about women's Lack of
strength and endurance as it traces the story of women
in sport from the legendary Amazons to historic and
current champions.

 

A social history, the film relates women's progress in
sports to prevailing social attitudes and, in recent

times, to the impact of the contemporary feminist
movements. It employs an exciting blend of documentary
sources, including archival footage, old kinetoscopes.
Hollywood movie clips, advertisements and art reproductions.
and quotes from people as different as Aristotle and Amelia
Earhart. Included is dramatic footage of the New York

City Marathon.

Size 10 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Room 2803
Nearly every women rejects or doesn't like some part of her
body, yet a women's acceptance of her body is crucial to her
identity. This film takes the view that a women's body cannot
be seen apart from her personality and how she acts in the
world. Size 10 shows us how women's body image has been
formed and deformed by advertising and sexism. The film
raises discussion about body image, sexuality, society's
conditioning of what women should look like, the fashion
industry's profits from our insecurities, pressures on women
to conform, adolescence and how we as women can feel better
about our bodies.

 

It's Not Your Imagination 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Room 2803
sexual harassment of women in the work force can take away
forms, from sexual innuendo to actions that threaten our
economic survival to sexual assault. What is often regarded
as common flirtation or 'natural' behaviour can in fact be a
way of reinforcing male power over women.

 

 

This film shows five women from various social and economic
backgrounds who have been sexually harassed on the job. They
tell us what happened to them and what they did about it.
Sometimes their retaliation made a positive change in their
situation and others times the barriers were too great. But
all of the women learned through their experience what

sexual harassment was and they did something about it. They
encourage other women to follow their actions. :

A three-minute historical section inthe film uses animation

of archival photographs and etchings to describe the social

and economic conditions that have led to women's oppressed
situation in the workforce while two women union representatives
discuss the obligations of unions to protect their members from
this form of discrimination.