Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Feb 19 2018
•1h 26m
•Documentary
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
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Laurie Anderson
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Phyllis Chesler
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Judy Chicago
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Funmilola Fagbamila
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