3.01.2001

Women's History Month 2001

       Gal Pals and Bosom Buddies Women's History Month 2001

UGA Libraries

Film Series - Screening Schedule

Thursday, March 15 - 6:30

PM, Main Library, B-2:

Not for Ourselves Alone:  The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999).

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program. Selections from the Ken Burns 1999 documentary, written by longtime collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward and narrated by Sally Kellerman. It brings heart, soul, and considerable poignancy to the stories of these two leaders of the woman's suffrage movement. Neither lived to see their crowning triumph­women going to the polls for the first time on November 2, 1920. Ms. Stanton was a plump, poetic mother of seven children, while Ms. Anthony was agrim-faced, grind-it-out activist who never married. "I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them," Stanton once wrote of their partnership. Comments by Bonnie Dow, Department of Speech Communication.  Contact: Ruta Abolins, 542-4757.

Thursday, March 22 - 6:30 PM, Main

Library, B-2:

Amazing Graces (1996) and Friends Like These With Liz Walker (1990).

Sponsored by the UGA Libraries.  The first is an episode of A Gardener's Diary, focusing on two women - one black, one white and both named Grace- who have been friends for thirty years.  Because of their mutual love for flowers, they have also developed a lasting friendship that transcends race in rural Buford, Georgia. The second offers a rare and personal story of modern African American history as seen through the lives of seven contemporary black women. These seven friends share their most intimate thoughts about motherhood, careers, dating, marriage, living alone, and growing old. Comments by Freda Scott Giles, Department of Drama and Theatre.  Contact: Ruta Abolins, 542-4757.

Thursday, March 29 - 6:30 PM, Main

Library, B-2:

Selections from If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000).

Sponsored by the UGA Libraries.  One of three vignettes, the selection is set in 1961.  When Abby dies of a stroke, her surviving partner of 50 years, Edith, must silently face heartbreak and the denial of her status as "family" by the hospital and Abby's heirs.  Comments Miranda Pollard, Department of History and Women's Studies Program.  Contact: Ruta Abolins, 542-4757.

UGA

Main Library Lobby - Exhibit

Gal Pals and Bosom Buddies: Women's Friendships in Books and Films.

Sponsored by the UGA Libraries and the Women's Studies Program.  Books and films featuring female friendships and feminist themes highlight this exhibit. Through Monday, April 30, 2001.  Contact: Ruta Abolins, 542-4757.

A complete list of featured books,films and related works from the exhibit may be found here.

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