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The Gentle Sex?
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 1062
A televisual essay examining some of the ways in which cultural images of gender in the twentieth century have arisen. Material from many sources offers a historical justification for Simone de Beauvoir's view of woman as `other.' Other interrelated pressures, such as class and race, are also considered. Extracts from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Grace Nichols's Spell Against Too Much Male White Power are used to explore the literary implications of representations of gender in the modern world.
Credits -
Director:
Mags Noble
Presenter:
Dinah Birch
Open University/BBC
