FILM AND VIDEO

PRAIRIE WOMEN

THE DISSENTING FEMENIST ACADEMY

National Film Board docu-drama shows the accomplishments of Women Grain Growers and United Farm Women in the thirties. Issues of health care, birth control, property rights education and peace are included. Available through NFB or your library. Free.

AN EVEN BREAK

The 23-minute video outlines practical ways to eliminate or minimize barriers to full employment for all workers, regardless of gender, disability or race. Available from the Ontario Women's Directorate, 4th Floor, Mowat Block, 900 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1C2.

Audio

Women Against Pornography has made available a series of audio tapes of the Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism Conference held in New York City in April. These include panels and talks given by Phyllis Chesler, Sonia Johnson, Florence Rush, Shere Hite, Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brownmiller, Mary Daly, Susan Co le, Kathleen Barry, Catherine A. MacKinnon, Charlotte Bunch, Gena Corea, Pauline Bart, Louise Armstrong and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, among others. To order your package of nine cassettes, send a money order (to cover cost) for $25.00 US, made payable to Women Against Pornography, 358 West 47th Street, New York, New York 10036, USA. Please allow up to four weeks for delivery.

THE DISSENTING FEMINIST ACADEMY

A History of the Barriers to Feminist Scholarship by Gisele Marie Thibault

A general statement about universities' response to feminism. The author suggests that the dissent of feminism offers the best alternative to the ills which beset academe. Failure to incorporate feminist dissent may mean extinction not just for women but for humanity. The author lives and works in Nova Scotia. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 62 West 45th Street, New York, New York, 10036-4202.