Trailblazers in Habits

Janette Bertrand, 96, is at the time of the balance sheets. Where are the women, where is the fight for gender equality? An hour of History with a...

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has surrounded herself with French artists for many...

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate...

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary,...

This documentary film is a dialogue between young women about female sexuality. Addressing the subject with freedom, courage and humor, they share...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped...

A look at the ways fashion has been used to socially control women in Canada, both historically and in the 20th century.

Moira Mulholland narrates the history of (European) women's rights through images, interviews, and performances focusing in on the Women's Suffrage...

A presentation of the historical process of rape, followed by a more recent approach of current studies that reinforce ÒRape Reliefs own...

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an order of gay male 'nuns', founded in San Francisco in the late 1970s with a goal to "expiate all stigmatic...