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Warrior marks / Women Make Movies ; producer and director, Pratibha Parmar ; a Hauer Rawlence production in association with Our Daughters Have Mothers Incorporated for Channel 4.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Attitudes.
- Walker, Alice.
- Female genital mutilation--Africa.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Infibulation--Africa.
- Infibulation.
- Clitoridectomy--Africa.
- Clitoridectomy.
- Abused women--Africa--Interviews.
- Abused women.
- Abused children--Africa.
- Abused children.
- Girls--Africa--Social conditions.
- Girls.
- Women--Africa--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (57 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1993]
- Language Note:
- In English and French with English subtitles or voiceovers.
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- Summary:
- WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation affects one hundred million of the world's women and this remarkable film unlocks some of the cultural and political complexities surrounding this issue. Interviews with women from Senegal, Gambia, Burkino Faso, the United States and England who are concerned with and affected by genital mutilation are intercut with Walker's own personal reflections on the subject.
- Participant:
- Presenter, Alice Walker ; dancer, Richelle Donigan.
- Credits:
- Camera, Nancy Schiesari [and 3 others] ; editor, Anna Liebschner.
- Notes:
- "Like the pupil of an eye: genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of women written by Alice Walker ; extract from Black sisters speak out written by Awa Thiam."--Credits.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 22, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1320973437
- Publisher Number:
- wm-warr Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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