Multimedia Collection
The Gender Tango
(Women: A True Story series)
VHS
47 minutes
HQ1236 .W651 1997 v.1
In this program, we look at the different ways women define themselves and are defined by others. Meet a young beauty queen who has been on the contest circuit since she was 22 months old; follow Maria, who sells cosmetics "hut-to-hut" in the Amazon, and ironically earns more than her male contemporaries; discover Dorothy, who masqueraded for years as a man in order to gain acceptance as a musician in the male-dominated jazz world. In two different aboriginal societies, we see how women are treated as evil and dangerous in one, and as valued, powerful members of the tribe in another.
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