Made in conjunction with members of B.C. Women’s Research Centre, this tape examines the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the women who were active at this time, and core issues. Parallels are drawn between the feminist movement of the 1970’s and its roots in the feminist and suffrage movements. Includes an interview with Vancouver Suffragette Mary Norton. [Description provided by the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archives]
FEMINIST HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY – SUFFRAGE
Title: Women’s Suffrage Movement In Canada
Creator: Women In Focus
Contributors:
Date Created: 1977
Type: Moving Image
Extent: 1 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: WIF_
Is Part Of: Women In Focus fonds
Source: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Women In Focus fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: Karen, a poised young woman who loves to play soccer, joins the local soccer league. “But I thought she was a boy,” her teammates confess when they learn there’s a girl on the team and Karen is demoted to a younger league. This film documents the feelings of Karen and Nancy, her mother, concerning women and sports. The mother advocates a change in society’s attitudes to ensure that her daughter will remain strong, aggressive and active. [Description provided by Women In Focus]
SPORTS – GENDER STEREOTYPES
Title: Karen: Women In Sports
Creator: Women In Focus
Contributors:
Guest speakers from “Women In Motion” Conference, Vancouver, B.C. 1975
Host – Marion Barling
Producer and Camerawoman – Marion Barling
Sound and Camera Assistants – Nicola Sumner, Pat Knox, Grace Eng
Crew – Corrine Angell, Marion Barling, Donna Layhew, Barb Tranter, Nicola Sumner, Bronia Zaks
Date Created: 1977
Type: Moving Image
Extent: 1 16mm Film
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: WIF_
Is Part Of: Women In Focus fonds
Source: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Women In Focus fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: This tape examines the problem of sexual harassment of women in the workforce. Five women discuss their experiences of sexual harassment on the job, and two union representatives give their definitions of sexual harassment and examine the obligation of unions to protect their members from this form of discrimination. [Description provided by Women in Focus]
SEXUAL HARASSMENT – WORKPLACE HARASSMENT – TRADE UNIONS
Title: It’s Not Your Imagination
Creator: Women In Focus, Women Against Violence Against Women
Contributors:
Director – Marion Barling
Camera – Madelene Duff
Location Sound – Christl Harvey
Editor – Jacqueline Cristianini
Location Co-ordinator – Diane Levings
Production Assistants – Sharon Fitz-Morris, Mickey McCaffrey, Suzanne Perreault
Animation Camera: Deborah Schildt
Research and Narration – Elaine Auerbach, Marion Barling, Sharon Fitz-Morris, Christl Harvey, Diane Levings, Sue Moore
Narrator – Silva Tenenbein
Interviewer – Sue Moore
Song – ‘Working Women’s Pride’ by Diane Levings
Special thanks to – Marion Barling, Sue Moore, Suzanne Perreault, Carol Street
Recorded at – Goldrush Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
Assistance Provided by – British Columbia Human Rights Commission. Employment and Immigration Canada, Youth Job Corps. National Film Board, Vancouver. Studio D, National Film Board, Montreal, Quebec. Women’s Department, Secretary of State.
Historical photographs provided by – Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Vancouver Public Library.
Date Created: 1980
Type: Moving Image
Extent: 1 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: WIF_008
Is Part Of: Women In Focus fonds
Source: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Women In Focus fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: The media plays a powerful role in all lives. It influences behaviour and how people think about themselves and others, often without much awareness. This process is particularly significant for women who have little input into the image-making process, yet are expected to emulate certain images such as the wholesome girl, the seductress, and super mom. Women’s bodies, dress, personality and actions will be judged according to the values shaped and conveyed through the media. This videotape looks at the presentation of women in TV, movies, advertising, music, fashion and the visual arts, decoding the images and examining the connections between them and women’s lives. The problems created by these images are discussed along with suggestions for improving the portrayal of women in the media and therefore in the quality of their lives. [Description provide by Women & Focus]
MEDIA – MISOGYNY – ADVERTISING
Title: That’s Not Me They’re Talking About
Creator: Women In Focus
Contributors: [Unidentified]
Date Created: 1980
Type: Moving Image
Extent: 1 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: WIF
Is Part Of: Women In Focus fonds
Source: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Women In Focus fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description:This videotape examines the imagery and message of pornography and its connection to violence against women, stating that in fact we don’t have to accept this propaganda. The opening is a fast-paced montage of sexist visual and audio messages which confront us daily from popular fashion magazines, billboards, newspapers, record albums and radio programming.
Four women discuss pornography, what it is, how it has affected and continues to affect them and other women. They draw connections between the messages of pornography and increasing rates of violence against women. [Description from Women In Focus 1984 Video & Film Catalogue]
MEDIA CRITICISM – ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY MOVEMENT – FEMINIST THEORY – GENDERED VIOLENCE
Title: A Respectable Lie
Creator: Women In Focus Society
Contributor(s):
Producers: Wendy Falconer, Penny Thompson
Project Coordinator: Marion Barling
Thanks to Betsy Cecill [Cecil], Ellen Dixon, Nancy Horsman; also Jay Falconer, Bill Siksay and Helga of Nova Gallery and last but not least the [women] at the office and The Pink House.
Date Created: 1980
Length: 30:00
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Interviews
Extent: 1 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: WIF-
Is Part Of: Women In Focus fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Women In Focus fonds.
Rights: Videos provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.