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Adventure & Travel | Arts | Drama & Entertainment | Health | History, North American | History, World | Labor & Employment | Music | Politics & Social Justice | Sciences | Social Issues | Sports/Exercise | Writers | Women around the World

ADVENTURE & TRAVEL

  • Alaska's great race the Susan Butcher story
  • Amelia Earhart (PBS-American Experience)
  • Amelia Earhart queen of the air (A&E)
  • Around the world in 72 days (re Nellie Bly)
  • World without walls: Beryl Markham's African memoirs

ARTS

  • Audrey Handler, glass artist
  • Behind the Scenes with Julie Taymor
  • Ethel Kvalheim: rosemaler
  • Frida Kahlo: 1910-1954
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Gods of beauty a portrait of the visionary {Madison} artist Mona Boulware Webb
  • Great Women Artists: v. 1, Mary Cassatt
  • Great Women Artists: v. 2, Frida Kahlo
  • Great Women Artists: v. 3, Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Martha Graham in performance
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Mary Cassatt: a brush with independence
  • Maya Lin : a strong clear vision
  • Patchwork: a kaleidoscope of quilts
  • Prairie quilts
  • Quilts in women's lives: six portraits
  • Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

DRAMA & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Bramwell (4 vols.)
  • Celia Cruz & Friends: a night of salsa
  • Cora unashamed
  • Elaine Stritch at Liberty
  • Elizabeth R ( 6 vols.)(Masterpiece Theatre)
  • Ellen DeGeneres, the beginning
  • If these walls could talk
  • If these walls could talk 2
  • Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  • Rescuers stories of courage: two women
  • Rita: the real story of Hollywood's love goddess, Rita Hayworth
  • Search for signs of ingeligint [sic] life in the universe (Lily Tomlin)
  • Slapstick encyclopedia Volume3, funny girls
  • Story of fashion (3 vols.)
  • Trojan women
  • Vagina Monologues
  • Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and beyond
  • Warrior queen (Masterpiece Theatre re. Boudica, Queen of ancient Britain)

HEALTH

  • Breast cancer: prevention and treatment
  • Fighting for our future: how young women find strength, hope and courage while taking control of breast cancer
  • For women only (with Gary Null)
  • Pilates in pregnancy
  • Secrets of reducing your breast cancer risk
  • Woman to woman: breast cancer and reconstruction options

HISTORY, NORTH AMERICAN

  • Abigail Adams
  • Abraham and Mary Lincoln a house divided (PBS-American Experience)
  • Belle: the life & writings of Belle Case La Follette
  • Big sister, little sister
  • Buffalo girls (mini-series)
  • Dane County/Wisconsin pioneer women's diaries
  • Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS-American Experience)
  • Eleanor Roosevelt, a restless spirit (A&E)
  • Eleanor Roosevelt story
  • Fannie Lou Hamer, everyday battle
  • First Ladies
  • Fly girls
  • Free a man to fight! women soldiers of World War II
  • Grey Gardens (Maysles' film re: Kennedy cousin Edith Bouvier Beale)
  • Her mother before her: Winnebago women's stories of their mothers & grandmothers
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton changing the rules
  • Hillary's class
  • Indigenous always, the legend of la Malinche and the conquest of Mexico
  • Jackie Onassis: an intimate portrait
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis in a class of her own (A&E)
  • The Journey of Sacagawea
  • Live and remember: Wo Kiksuye
  • Midwife's tale (American Experience Series)
  • Mountain wolf woman
  • 1900 house (PBS)
  • Pocahontas ambassador of the new world
  • Prairie cabin a Norwegian pioneer woman's story
  • Prairie child 1848
  • Sally Hemings, redefining history
  • Sisters {Winnebago women}
  • Winnebago women songs & stories

HISTORY, WORLD

  • Americas (Vol. 5 in Women's Hands the Changing Rols of Women)
  • Cleopatra destiny's queen (A&E)
  • Daughter from Danang
  • Elizabeth II: winds of change
  • Evita the woman behind the myth (A&E)
  • Joan of Arc (A&E)
  • Joan of Arc (mini-series)
  • Queen Elizabeth the queen mother 90 glorious years
  • The six wives of Henry VIII (6 volumes)
  • Sojourner Truth (Pauline Myers as Soujourner Truth)
  • Sojourner Truth antislavery activist
  • Wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

  • Killing us softly
  • Life and times of Rosie the riveter
  • Sins of our mothers the story of Emeline (New England mills)
  • Still killing us softly: advertising's image of women
  • Women in construction
  • Women in dentistry
  • Women in firefighting
  • Women in nontraditional careers
  • Women in policing
  • Women in welding

MUSIC

  • Alberta Hunter: my castle's rockin'
  • An evening with Lena Horne
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Jazz. Episode 6, Swing (sec. on Billie Holiday, Mary Lou Williams, & Ella Fitzgerald)
  • Ladies sing the blues
  • Lady day: the many faces of Billie Holiday
  • Madonna truth or dare
  • Marian Anderson

POLITICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE see also History, North American

  • Emma Goldman: an exceedingly dangerous woman
  • Ida B. Wells a passion for justice (PBS American Experience)
  • Jane Addams
  • Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
  • Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
  • Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Sex & justice: highlights of the Anita Hill Clarence Thomas hearings
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Susan B. Anthony rebel for the cause
  • Votes for women?!

SCIENCES

  • Country diary of an Edwardian lady
  • Jane Goodall: a life in the wild
  • Jane Goodall reason for hope: a spiritual journey
  • Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees
  • The Pill
  • Science and gender with Evelyn Fox Keller

SOCIAL ISSUES

  • Aileen Wuornos, damsel of death
  • America fever (Her own words prod.)
  • Battered woman
  • Brandon Teena story
  • Burning times (Women & spirituality series)
  • Celebrating Menopause: a Woman's Journey
  • Century of women (v.1) Work & family (v.2) (v.3)
  • Century of women (v.2) Image & popular culture
  • Century of women (v.3) Sexuality& social justice
  • Clara Barton
  • The execution of Wanda Jean
  • Famine within
  • Finding strength for living: laughter & learning for women with cancer
  • Full circle (Women & spirituality series)
  • Gap toothed women
  • Girlhood: a film by Liz Garbus
  • Goddess remembered (Women & spirituality series)
  • Growing up female
  • Hearts and hands
  • Helen Keller
  • Images & realities (Vol. 1), African American women
  • In search of history Salem witch trials (A&E)
  • Intimate portrait Betty Friedan
  • It was a wonderful life
  • Living Islam v. 4: paradise lies at the feet of the mother (women in Islam)
  • Lizzie Borden a woman accused (A&E)
  • Margaret Mead, taking note
  • Paris was a woman
  • Power of suggestion (3 vols.) a feminist look at daytime soap operas
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
  • Reviving Ophelia saving the selves of adolescent girls
  • Searching for Debra Winger
  • She's nobody's baby
  • Shoulder to shoulder (6 vols.)
  • Sunset story
  • Union maids
  • Witches of Salem the horror and the hope
  • Woman to Woman (3 vols): initial discovery and diagnosis of breast cancer

SPORTS/EXERCISE

  • Golf, the women's game with Patty Sheehan
  • Kathy Smith's Moving Through Menopause
  • League of their own the documentary
  • We got next: WNBA's inaugural season
  • Wilma Rudolph

WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD

  • Daughters of Afghanistan
  • Googoosh: Iran's daughter
  • Iran behind closed cha-dors
  • Faces of Japan v.1 Fashion model; v.5 Woman soldier
  • Global Links v.3 women in the third world
  • Heart of the dragon. Episode 8, Marrying (re China)
  • Nazrah: a Muslim Woman's Perspective (DVD)
  • Women and spirituality
  • Women of the world (series; 7 vols.)

WRITERS

  • A room of one's own (Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf)
  • Ayn Rand a sense of life
  • Beatrix Potter--artist, storyteller and countrywoman
  • Belle of Amherst (Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson)
  • The Brontes of Haworth (drama/mini-series)
  • The field of time (a festival of poets) - Sandra McPherson and Linda McCarriston
  • For my people the life and writing of Margaret Walker
  • Growth of a poet Sylvia Plath
  • How did she do it? (re Agatha Christie)
  • Intimate portrait Maya Angelou
  • Jane Austen novelist, 1775-1817
  • Jane Austen's life, society, works (3 vols.)
  • Margaret Atwood: once in August
  • Toni Morrison
  • Voices & visions. Volume 2, [part 1], Emily Dickinson
  • Voices & visions v. 2: Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop
  • What I want my words to do to you
  • Willa Cather : the Road is All (DVD)
  • Writer's work with Toni Morrison
  • Zona Gale, her life and writings
  • Zora is my name! (re: Zora Neale Hurston)

rev. 9/2006



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