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.
WHM 2001 Bibliography
Gal Pals and Bosom Buddies
Celebrating Women's Friendships
Bibliography of featured books
Banner, Lois W. Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. HQ1413 .B36 A3 1998
Brightman, Carol, ed. Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975. New York: Harcourt Brace, c1995. JC263 .A69 A3 1995
Brittain, Vera. Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby. London: Macmillan & Co., 1940. PR6015 .O5 Z6 1940
Curry, Constance, and others. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. E185.98 .A1 D44 2000
Dallas, Sandra. The Persian Pickle Club. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. PS3554 .A434 P47 1995
Everett, Patricia R., ed. A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to be Friends: The Correspondence Between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1996. CT275 .L838 A4 1996
Goldsmith, Olivia. The First Wives Club. New York: Poseidon Press, c1992. PS3557 .O3857 F57 1992
Goodman, Ellen, and Patricia O'Brien. I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000. On Order
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. F189 .R69 P75 1999
Hollinger, Karen. In the Company of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. PN1995.9 .W6 H66 1998
Kephart, Beth. Into the Tangle of Friendship: A Memoir of the Things that Matter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. CT275 .K45855 A3 2000
Koppelman, Susan, ed. Women's Friendships: A Collection of Short Stories. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1991. PS647 .W6 W66 1991
Lasser, Carol and Marlene Deahl Merrill, eds. Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1987. HQ1413 .S73 A4 1987
L'Engle, Madeleine, and Luci Shaw. Friends for the Journey: Ttwo Extraordinary Women Celebrate Friendships Made and Sustained Through the Seasons of Life. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Vine Books/Servant Publications, c1997. Science Leisure Collection YS4373.
McCarthy, Mary. The Group. New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. PS3525 .A1435 G7 1963
McMillan, Terry. Waiting to Exhale. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1992. PS3563 .C3868 W35 1992
Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1974. PS3563 .O8749 S8
Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place. New York: Penguin Books, 1983, c1982. PS3564 .A895 W6 1983
Ross, Pat. The Kinship of Women: A Celebration of Enduring Friendship. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, c1997. TR681 .W6 R67 1997
Rostenberg, Leona, and Madeleine Stern. Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion. New York : Doubleday, 1997. Z473 .R77 R665 1997
Shakespeare, William. As You Like It; edited by Alan Brissenden. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. PR2803 .A2 B7 1993
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, and Emily Kimbrough. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. Drawings by Alajálov. New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & company, 1942. PS3537 .K533 O8 1942
Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel. New York, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1996. PS3573 .E4937 D58 1996
Celebrating Women's Friendships
Filmography of featured works
Ellen. [1997-04-30], The Puppy Episode. Ellen senses a kindred spirit when she meets a gay woman, who enlightens her to her own sexual identity. Confused by this startling self-discovery, Ellen seeks the guidance of a therapist and braces herself for yet another moment of truth-telling her friends about this personal revelation. This episode was originally aired as a one-hour special and Laura Dern was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in this episode. Peabody 97024 ENT
A Gardener's Diary. [1996-09-16], Amazing Graces. Two women - one black, one white and both named Grace, have been friends for 30 years. Because of their mutual love of flowers, they have also developed a lasting friendship that transcends race in rural Buford, Ga. Peabody 96056 ENT
Friends like these with Liz Walker. (1990) A rare and personal story of modern African-American history as seen through the lives of seven contemporary black women. These friends share their most intimate thoughts about motherhood, careers, dating, marriage, living alone, growing old. And with the use of historical footage, the documentary captures significant points of history that have changed the lives of these women, from the Woman's Movement, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the Vietnam War. Peabody 90054 DCT
Housekeeping. (1987) In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations. Media VHS 612.1
If these walls could talk 2. (2000) Three segments, dealing with women and the topic of lesbianism, set in the same house, but with different occupants which spans nearly 40 years. 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. 1972 - When Linda meets Amy and falls in love with her, she learns about and begins to understand her own prejudices. 2000 - Fran and Kal want to have a baby. But they want the baby to be theirs and theirs alone, so to the sperm bank they go. But the decisions to be made! Media VHS 3393.1
In Seach of the Heroes: The Susan B. Anthony Story. (1994) Drama about a 16-year-old girl from our own time, who feels her life is a "lost cause". Meeting a mysterious librarian, she is catapulted into the past where she meets Susan B. Anthony and learns that the only lost causes are the ones we don't fight for. She follows Anthony's struggle to achieve her goals and finds the confidence to change her own life. Peabody 94029 EDT
Julia. (1977) From Pentimento, the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, Julia covers 1930s and centers on Lillian's relationship with her lifelong friend. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word "love" seems appropriate. Julia, having taken up the battle against fascism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money through Nazi Germany which will assist in the Anti-Fascist cause. It is a dangerous mission especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to communist Russia. Media Laser 517.1
Based on: Hellman, Lillian. Pentimento. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. (PS3515 .E343 Z498)
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. (1999) Ken Burns' documentary about these two leaders of the woman's suffrage movement. Peabody 99210 DCT
Based on: Ward, Geoffrey C. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Illustrated History. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999. (HQ1412 .W36 1999)
Outrageous fortune. (1987) Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger. Media Laser 484.1
Passion fish. (1992) May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had eagerly left years before. Chantelle, May-Alice's nurse, for reasons of her own, is in a position where she badly needs the job to work out. The movie focuses on how these two women become friends and help each other heal emotionally. Media VHS 3243.1
Out of the Past. (1998) A documentary attempting to cover one topic over two time periods. Looks at gay and lesbian role models of the past, and at a young lesbian in Utah who attemts to form a gay-straight alliance in her high school and runs into much resistance. Peabody 98150 DCT
Steel Magnolias. (1989) Set in Louisiana , this is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives, loves and hardships come together there. Media Laser 351.1
Based on: Harling, Robert. Steel Magnolias. New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, c1988. (PS3558 .A62425 S7 1988)
Thelma & Louise. (1991) Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. Media DVD 27.1 and Media VHS 2619.1
Votes for Women. Celebrates the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the 72-year struggle to gain its passage. Peabody 96035 EDT
Related featured works
The American Experience. Hawaii's Last Queen. (1997) On January 16, 1893, four boatloads of United States Marines armed with Gatling guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition came ashore in Honolulu, capital of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii. As the Royal Hawaiian band played a concert at the Hawaiian Hotel, 162 troops marched through the streets of Honolulu, heading for the palace. The Queen of Hawaii, Lili'uokalani, looked down from her balcony as the troops took up their positions. The following day, she surrendered at gunpoint, yielding her throne to the government of the United States, brought in at the behest of the surgar industry. Peabody 97174 DCT
The American Experience. Influenza 1918. (1998) The story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans--more than all the combat deaths of this century combined--among them the many nurses caring for the ill and dying. Peabody 98314 DCT
Breaking the Silence: Voices on Battered Women. (1987) A ten part oral history radio series from KUOM, 770 AM, University of Minnesota. Covers public attitudes about wife abuse, including police response, the particular problems of rural women, emotional abuse, children of battered women, treatment for abusers, and solutions and options. Produced and written by Sharon Rice Vaughan. Peabody 87046 DCR
Frontline. In the Game. (1994) Narrated by Alfre Woodard, this is a dramatic chronicle of one coach, one team, and one season in women's college basketball. It examines the obstacles which face young women in sports: lack of funding, lack of recognition, sexism, and the dead-end road at the end of college. Peabody 94002 DCT
Grandma Was an Activist: A Radio Series on Radical Women in the 1930s. (1983) Six half-hour radio programs: (1) "The black and the red" - Activists in Harlem early in the Depression; (2) "How do you spell relief?" - Looks at the WPA and unemployment; (3) "On the line" - Women in the labor movement; (4) "They shall not pass" - Women of the anti-fascist movement; (5) "Readin' and 'ritin' on the road to power" - Socialist women on campus; (6) "The militant muse" - Activist women in the arts. Peabody 83024 DCR
A Midwife's Tale. (1996) A docudrama adaptation of Laurel Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women. Media VHS 3034.1 and Peabody 98313 DCT
Based on: Ulrich, Laurel. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. (F29 .H15 U47 1990)
Oprah: Make the Connection. In Oprah's first video, she takes you behind the scenes of her day-to-day life, giving a camera crew unprecedented access as she shares her most private moments and painful memories. You will follow her dramatic journey from the night she hit her lowest point to the day she finally took the most important step of her life. Peabody 97133 ENT
Rediscovering Depression: Beating the Blues. More than 20 million Americans suffer from the debilitating and often life-threatening disease of depression. This documentary film addresses the issues, the costs, and the various treatment options of the "brain disease." Peabody 99077 DCT
Ultimate Choice: A Film on Teen Pregnancy Prevention. One part of former-Governor Zell Miller's Youth Programming Initiative designed to educate and inspire young people. The other two episodes covered juvenile crime and teen driving. Peabody 97097 PST
Women's Bodies, Women's Minds. (1999) One of a four part series on women's health issues. The other titles are: Women's Bodies, Women's Choices (tape 2); Your Diet, Your Health (tape 3); The Wisdom of Menopause (tape 4). Peabody 99043 PST, tape 1
Based on: Northrup, Christiane. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. (RG121 .N59 1994)
Compiled and annotated by Laura D. Shedenhelm, March 2001
