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These girls are missing / by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Shari, author.
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in education--Africa.
- Sex discrimination in education.
- Sex role--Africa.
- Sex role.
- Women--Education--Africa.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (62 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1996.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- Everybody knows this instinctively -- educate women and you will change society. Perhaps that's why in many African countries, fewer than 20% of girls ever enter a schoolroom, and across the continent, only one woman in three learns to read. It s not official policy. In fact, an international industry devoted to changing the status quo exists. Still the deck is stacked against African girls. How can a schoolgirl be such a threat to traditional concepts of appropriate gender roles and control of fertility? These Girls Are Missing offers small sets of stories, sharp glimpses into a few intimate relationships layered to mirror the complex reality: Nadouba and Bintu in their West African village, Taz and Patricia from elite St. Mary s Secondary School in Malawi, Ethel and her mother torn between village and the modern world, a relaxed and riotous conversation among a group of Malinke elders. Through knowing them, the audience grows to understand how deep cultural attitudes, more than economics, undermine the future of Africa s women. More provocative than prescriptive, this film aims to inspire reflection, argument and deeper understanding.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- African Studies Association, 1996
- Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival, 1997
- OCLC:
- 747799095
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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