American Women — Beauty and body image
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If I can’t sell it, I’ll keep sitting on it before I’ll give it away / produced by Susan Anderson.
A documentary about the image of woman in TV advertising and programming in two parts. The first part of the program deals with the happy homemaker. who is busy, cautious, satisfied, plagued by modern maladies, and an ideal consumer unit. The second part of the program considers the ideal beauty, wherein women are either portrayed…
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Fat is a feminist issue / Carol Munter and Susie Orbach ; interviewed by Ann Snitow.
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Menstrual blood / produced by Jan Legnitto and Isabel Welsh.
The audio track (actuality) to a theater-piece about the psychology, sociology, and physiology of menstruation produced by Isabel Welsh. Presented at the U.C. Art Museum during the Festival of Bay Area women artists, October 1, 1972. Second half of program is Isabel Welsh being interviewed by Jan Legnitto about the piece.
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Fear of fat : the politics of body size / produced by Santiago Casal and Laura Finkler.
This program examines the existing medical perspective on body size, the ideology of individualism/self-control, the weight and diet foods industry, and the powerful feeling that fatness arouses in us. The program includes interviews with fat and thin people, some of whom are authors and leaders in the new movement which challenges our myths about fat.…