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A Moment in Her Story - Documentary Film and Meet the Filmmaker

A Moment in Her Story - Documentary Film and Meet the Filmmaker
When: Thursday, September 29, 2016
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Where: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
Cost: Free
Description: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room

Join us to watch this documentary film, highlighting stories from the Boston Women's Movement. Stay after the film for free refreshments and a discussion with the filmmaker Catherine Russo.

"Starting in 1968, the Second Wave of Feminism rippled across the U.S., demanding expanded possibilities for women of all races and classes. In the Boston area, students, professionals, community activists and working class mothers came together to demand change. This feature length documentary provides testimony of the movement's transforming energy, creativity and determination. Many of the culture wars being waged today came out of this movement and the backlash it incurred. The video traces the history of the women's movement coming out of the Anti-war and Civil Rights movements and continuing through the 1970s. This production includes 22 interviews with movement activists and archival material in the form of photos, videos, posters, music, graphics, newsletters and newspapers from the period. I worked for years to locate this material, asking women for their personal collections and searching through libraries and the web.

This video is not about feminist stars as defined by the media. The interviewees are the women who fought these struggles in groups and collectives and developed a new way of working together. They include working class women, black women, Latinas, lesbians, socialist feminists and the radical and cultural feminists of the late 60's and 70's. I doubt that you have seen this revolutionary force portrayed before."
-Catherine Russo
Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, History, Labor Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Films