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Growing up and liking it / produced by Susan Terrill.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menarche.
- Menstrual cycle--Psychological aspects.
- Menstrual cycle.
- Menstruation.
- Women--Physiology.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1993.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- The monthly menstruation cycle, that natural occurrence which from time immemorial has made women the object of taboo and superstition, is the subject of this fresh and often humorous Video or DVD. We meet women of varying ages and cultural backgrounds who share with us the vivid and often disturbing memories of coming of age. A young Jewish woman recollects being slapped sharply across the face and then kissed to celebrate her womanhood. An East Indian tells how her mother had to take a cold shower in the middle of winter to purify herself. A far cry from the prim sex education manuals that the film gently mocks, it will touch deeply buried chords of memory in most women who see it. Growing Up and Liking It will interest husbands, boyfriends and brothers who, one way or another, are affected by the vagaries of the female cycle.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- City Lore Film Festival, 1993
- National Women's Studies Conference, 1992
- OCLC:
- 747797731
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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