With the Oscars coming up this weekend, we’ve all got movies on our minds. And since most of the focus on women this Sunday will favor fashion over faculty, the staff at AAUW has decided to highlight our own favorite ladies in film — regardless of whether they made the grade with the typically testosterone-focused [...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
Our Own Women’s Oscars
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Academy Awards, Cinema, film, Oscars on February 25, 2011, | 6 Comments »
Body Typed
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged beauty, beauty ideal, Body Typed, film, media, photo retouching, women filmmakers, women in media, women's representation on December 22, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Living in media-saturated cultures, we are surrounded by perfected images of “beauty.” The debate continues over whether or not advertisers should disclose the extent to which their images are digitally manipulated. Valérie Boyer, a member of the French parliament is proposing legislation in France that would require digitally altered photographs to be labeled. What would [...]
Meet Gail Reimer: Founding Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's History Month, tagged American Fellowship, blog, education, film, Following the Fellows, Jewesses with Attitude, jewish comedians, Jewish Women's Archive, women's history on May 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Growing up, Gail Reimer, a 1984–85 American Fellow, knew she was going to have to do something more than just live her life. With two parents who had survived the Holocaust, Gail had been brought up to “pay it forward.” The Jewish Women’s Archive, with Gail is its founding director, is one big way she [...]
Meet Robin Blaetz: Women’s Avant-Garde Cinema Researcher
Posted in Women and Work, tagged American Fellowship, Avant Garde, Cinema, Fellowships and Grants, film, Following the Fellows, Francophile, French, Grants & Awards, grants and awards, Sexism on May 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English and French, 2004–05 American Fellow Robin Blaetz traveled to Paris to reflect on her future. Within a month of arriving, Robin identified her new passion: avant garde film. She returned from Paris and applied to New York University’s cinema studies program, which claims to be the [...]
Meet Rashi Bahri: Talk Show Host, Screenplay Writer, Producer, Director
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, film, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, international fellowships, movies on October 10, 2008, | 6 Comments »
I remember once, after a knock-down, drag-out battle about whether or not I should take a year off of college to travel the west coast — my corner said yes and my parents’ corner said no way — my dad stayed up all night and wrote a small-novel length e-mail explaining his position and concluding [...]
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