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In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop...
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"Winner of the 1991 Canada-Japan Book Award, Canadian Historical Association"
Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families...
3) Gaea Girls
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2000.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are usually regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as violent as any member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the blood...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Tired of watching local government ignore their communities' interests, five diverse female activists decide to run for municipal office in Denver - one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country. It begins when Shontel Lewis wins a transit board seat, inspiring four women who worked on her campaign - Dr. Lisa Calderón, Candi CdeBaca, Shayla Richard, and Veronica Barela - to make the unusual decision to run as a cohort. With only a fraction...
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