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Title:

Femmes aux yeux ouverts = Women with open eyes / un film de Anne Laure Folly ; produit par Amanou Production.

Publisher:

California Newsreel,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions.
Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions.
Female circumcision.
Marriage customs and rites--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women--Diseases--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women--Africa, West--Social conditions.
Feminism--Africa, West.
Sexually transmitted diseases--Africa, West.
Clitoridectomy--Africa, West.
Infibulation--Africa, West.
Businesswomen--Africa, West.
Africa, West--Social conditions.
Documentary films--Togo.

Other Authors:

Folly, Anne-Laure. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96058904
Amanou production (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96024560
California Newsreel (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80142225

Notes:

Originally produced in Togo.

Summary:

Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy.

Series:

Library of African cinema

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173182014

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)