Second Wave Feminism : Video and Images

Harvard University has nearly 36,000 images in the database ARTstor. They cover all aspects of women's lives in the 19th and 20th centuries. (If the link does not work, go to the database below, search for your keywords, then narrow down to the Schlesinger Library under "Collection.")

Explores the early history (1965-69) of the women’s movement that grew in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing especially on the interconnections with SDS. The video focuses on events and the thinking behind all the events, including the impact on men and their reactions.

by Joan Braderman, No More Nice Girls Productions, 2009. Focuses on the Heresies Collective--which published Heresies; a feminist publication on art & politics from 1975-1992--as a microcosm of the larger international Women’s Movement.

Uses interviews and archival footage to examine the first National Women's Conference, held in Houston, TX in 1977, and the debates held there over issues including reproductive freedom, sexual preferences, and minority rights.

Thinking Eye Productions presents; produced and directed by Eva Moskowitz, 1993. Shows the effect of the women's movement on the lives of several women of diverse backgrounds who came of age in the 1950s.

Wisconsin Public Television, produced by Joyce Follet, 1998. Traces the gradual emergence of contemporary feminism through the life stories of eight [Midwestern] women who helped make it happen from 1941 to 1977. Their testimonies weave an historical narrative of a mass movement evolving as personal experience yields political analysis and spurs social protest.

Produced and directed by Ellen Cooperperson, 1978. Women Now:relates the early days of the women’s movement through the activities of NOW and the experiences of its members. Listing also includes Yes Baby, She’s My Sir, which examines the blatant sexism of our language at that time.