BCRW

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Episodes of BCRW

    • Women, Work, and the Academy

      In the Viginia Gildersleeve panel on "Women, Work, and the Academy" (December 9, 2004), Nancy Hopkins, Claude Steele, and Virginia Valian outline our best current understanding of the status of women and minority scholars in academia and describe some of the most promising interventions undertaken to change these conditions. The inspiration for this panel and for the conference that followed is a growing body of work that focuses attention on conditions that persistently reproduce inequalities...

      • Release date
        Mar 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:43:37
    • International Human Rights

      This panel discussion featuring Virginia Magwaza-Setshedi and Helen Lieberman, and moderated by Yvette Christiansë, was held on February 9, 2010 in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit "Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights" at Barnard College in New York. Organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, this event was co-sponsored by the Dobkin Family Foundation, the Tolan Family Foundation, and Ralph and Emily Simon Foundation.

      • Release date
        Feb 18, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:12:12
    • Saba Mahmood

      Introduced by Janet Jakobsen, Saba Mahmood delivered the lecture, "The Politics of Freedom: Geopolitics, Minority Rights and Gender" on November 5, 2009 at Barnard College in New York City. Originally titled "Should Religious Ethics Matter to Feminist Politics?" Mahmood's talk marked the sixth annual Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture. Visit

      • Release date
        Nov 12, 2009
      • Runtime
        57:40
    • Eileen O'Neill: "The City of Women"

      Introduced by Christia Mercer, Eileen O'Neill delivered these closing remarks, entitled "The City of Women," at the conference Women, Philosophy and History: A Celebration of Eileen O'Neill '75, held on October 2-3, 2009 at Barnard College in New York City. For additional videos and podcasts of this event and others like it, visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw.

      • Release date
        Oct 12, 2009
      • Runtime
        31:56
    • New Feminist Activism

      This is the full-length video of "New Feminist Activism," a panel discussion featuring Mia Herndon, Debra Cole and Rinku Sen. This event took place on September 16, 2009 at Barnard College. Visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw for additional videos and podcasts of this event and others like it.

      • Release date
        Sep 28, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:12:08
    • Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions

      To those who claim that feminism has had its day, BCRW offers a brief, fascinating, and irrefutable rebuttal. In Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions, filmmaker Rebecca Haimowitz interviews some of the most exciting voices in feminist scholarship and activism.

      • Release date
        Sep 24, 2009
      • Runtime
        22:56
    • Engendering Justice: Women, Prisons and Change

      The rate of imprisonment in the United States has been rising at exponential rates. In the last two decades alone, the population of incarcerated women has increased by 400 percent. At the heart of these numbers we find not only a certain philosophy of crime and punishment, but also complex and largely unexamined attitudes toward those we imprison. On April 8, 2006, building on an ongoing conversation that the Barnard Center for Research on Women has facilitated through its Women Seeking Justi...

      • Release date
        Sep 21, 2009
      • Runtime
        18:05
    • Women and Work: Feminists in Solidarity with Dom...

      Working with filmmaker Basia Winograd, the Barnard Center for Research on Women produced this documentary featuring women leaders from across the country raising their voices to support the work being done on behalf of domestic workers in the US. Participants include Carol Jenkins, Maria Hinojosa, Liz Abzug, Nicole Mason, Amy Richards, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Yolanda Wu, Jennifer Baumgardner, and the Guerrilla Girls.

      • Release date
        Jun 22, 2009
      • Runtime
        11:42
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