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Beyond Killing Us Softly: The Strength to Resist*
- 2000 ----- color ----- 34 min ----- vhs
- Deals with the fight against the toxic and degrading messages to girls and women that dominate the media. Presents leading authorities (including Carol Gilligam, Graham Professor of Gender Studies, Harvard University; Gloria Steinem, Co-founder, Consulting Editor of Ms. Magazine and noted author; Gail Dines, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology, Wheelock College; Catherine Steiner-Adair, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, Harvard Eating Disorders Center; Valerie Batts, Clinical Psychologist and Executive Director of Visions, Inc.; Amy Richards, Co-founder of Third Wave Foundation) in the fields of psychology of women and girls, eating disorders, violence against women, media literacy--and focuses their ideas on practical solutions for reclaiming our culture. Aims to build self esteem in girls and women and promotes a reassessment of society's views of gender roles. (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
- Topics: (Adolescence, Advertising, Discrimination, Family Life, Sociology, Television, Women Studies)
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