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How They Saw Us : Is It a Woman's World?  Cover Image E-video E-video

How They Saw Us : Is It a Woman's World?

Pearson, Ann, (film director.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: This film, made especially for television in 1956, embodies the conventional myth that women indirectly exercise power through their ability to manipulate men through sex and marriage.

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video (29 min., 20 sec.) : sound, black and white
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  • Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2024.

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General Note:
Also available:.Also available in a video compilation: <I>Women in the '40s and '50s</I> produced by English Program Studio D.
Versions:.Original film released under the title <I>Is It a Woman's World?</I>, title code: 106B 0156 090.
Restrictions on Access Note:
No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director, Ann Pearson.
Participant or Performer Note: Cast, Peggy Brown, Fred Davis, Barbara Hamilton, Aileen Karness, Cec Linder, Veita Linder, Arch MacDonald, René Robinson, Hugh Webster, Yuki Yoshida.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded 1977.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-03-01).
Subject: Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Women -- Canada -- Social conditions
Dramatizations -- Equal rights -- Feminist viewpoints -- Human rights -- Roles -- Stereotyping -- Women
Genre: Fiction films.

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