childcare and child custody • housing • consumers • adult literacy • environment
housing
The Apartment (USA)
Video
Made by Rita Moreira and Marma Mahia Pontes
Distributor: Rita Moreira (Brazil)
This videotape depicts an adventure of finding a place to live in New York City. The video highlights the experience of Carol Groshery, who tries to make her apartment liveable.
SEE ALSO
Other resources that address the themes of this chapter are listed below. The chapters where they may be found are given in boldface type.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Empowering Women for Development
Vida de Angel (Mexico)
Las Amas de Casa (Mexico)
Mujeres en Lucha (Mexico)
Las Mujeres Lo Hicimos (Peru)
consumers
Echale Mas Agua a Los Frijoles (Mexico)
(Add Some More Water to the Beans)
Documentary slideshow, 94 slides, 15 min., color, in Spanish, with signals for manual slide change
Made by Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Distributor: CIDHAL (Mexico)
This slideshow is about the rising cost of living in Mexico, including an analysis of internal markets and the role of transnational corporations in domestic production. It goes on to show how these factors affect women, who, as the slideshow shows, are those who suffer the most in times of economic downturn, especially among Mexico's poorer classes.
Yuri Takada and the Consumer Protection Movement
(Japan 1976)
Second in a ten-part series
Video, U-matic, 27 min., color, in Japanese, Chinese and English
Director: Haruko K. Watanabe
Producer: HKW Video Workshop
Distributor: HKW Video Workshop (Japan)
Yuri Takada, vice-president and chief scientist of the Japan Housewives' Association, talks about her scientific support to the consumer movement in this interview with Yoko Nuita. She says that she formed her philosophy of life while experimenting in the laboratory: one must accumulate sufficient data and then analyze it accurately. She also speaks about her late husband who taught her to love people and work with others. Yuri Takada expresses her hope to set up a small claims court system in Japan in order to protect consumers.
Super Duper (Australia 1977)
Film, 16 mm, 7 min., color, in English
Made by Canberra Women's Film Group with Sarah Dowse and Vladimir Stojanovic
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
A woman literally makes her home in a supermarket, for there hardly seems any reason for her not to. The theme is the loneliness and absurdity of consumerism, that ubiquitous process where the consumer ends up herself consumed.
child care and custody
Sobre las Guarderias Infantiles y la Educacion de los Hijos (Mexico)
(On Day-Care Centers and Child-Raising)
Slideshow, color, in Spanish
Made by Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Distributor: CIDHAL (Mexico)
Still in preparation as this Guide goes to press.
SEE ALSO
Other resources that address the themes of this chapter are listed below. The chapters where they may be found are given in boldface type.
AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
Our Work
Working with Child Care (Australia)
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Mum's the Word (Australia) - single mothers
Single Mothers Speak Out (New Zealand)
Lesbian/Gay Liberation
Showtime (Australia)
EUROPE
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Who Needs Nurseries? We Do! (England) - child care
Our Work
Paroles d'Assistantes Maternelles (France) - child care
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Empowering Women for Development
Grupo Creativo de la Mujer (Chile) - child care
Our Work
Atendimiento de Criancas en Creche (Brazil) - child care
NORTH AMERICA
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Joint Custody: A New Kind of Family (USA) - custody
By the Skin of Our Teeth (Canada) - custody
Lesbian/Gay Liberation
In the Best Interests of the Children (USA) - custody
Other themes
ADULT LITERACY
Empowering Women for Development
Women Streetsweepers of La Paz (Bolivia)
O Mundo Era Muito Maior Que a Minha Casa (Brazil)
Aprendiendo con Luisa (Dominican Republic)
ENVIRONMENT
Migrants and Refugees
Mulher, Identitade, Urbanismo (Brazil)