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Alcohol: A women’s health issue

Seven women recount their experiences with alcoholism. Close captioned.

Pink Brain, Blue Brain

Mythbusting sex differences in the brain: author/neuroscientist Lise Eliot discusses her book.

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Women Who Served in Our Military: For Veterans and Families
Jane Pauley hosts a documentary about the experiences of American women veterans, and their mental health. Close captioned. PDF transcript. There’s also a 01:10:00 version for service providers, here. For more info, email ncptsd@va.gov or call the PTSD Information Line at (802) 296-6300

[Above video features highlights; full episode premieres July 19.]

Most Popular

Would you answer a casting call like this? Contestants wanted: be judged by 100 women on your attractiveness, moral character, likeability, and fashion taste. Answer personal and embarrassing questions on camera. Crowd members will make quick, catty comments about why they don’t like you, if voted off. … Some women have very strong self-esteem and/or a strong drive to appear on TV, so here’s Most Popular, a new game show. 91% of 894 adult women polled by WEtv ”usually judge someone based on their appearance before they get to know them.” This idea underlies the show’s Moral Wheel (spin for questions about scruples, inner self, relationships – and looks) and competitive wedding gowns. Most Popular involves social psychology, evo psych, pop psych, feminism and more. It isn’t a science program, but it is an entertaining cultural experiment.

I’d never watched WEtv before this preview, and their store sells plastic flip-flops with a pink heart pattern – which caused me to form a snap judgment, as a critical woman who likes shoes. Then I challenged the stereotype, got to know the show on its own merits, and feel more positive about it.

The first episode premieres Sunday July 19 at 10:00 pm EST.

[Short clip embedded above; link to full video below.]

title The Gender Puzzle
description Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, genetics, intersex, and gender beyond chromosomes or culture. A pay per view video on demand (PPV VOD) costing one British pound but worth it. An excellent documentary. From the description: “Scientists are now looking beyond chromosomes to ‘brain sex’ and the role of newly discovered genes. By studying transsexuals and people on the gender extremes, they believe they can unlock the gender puzzle.”
producer Janine Cohen, for ABC Australia
featuring Janine Cohen, Christie North & family, Vince Harley, Andrew Sinclair, Louise Newman, Andie Hider & family, Garry Warne, Fintan Harte, Craig Andrews and many more
format Flash
date 17/11/05
length 00:44:50
link http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=2394

Tags: brain video documentary PPV sex gender genetics intersex transsexual transgender bioethics LGBT

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title The Science of Gender and Science: A Conversation with Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke
description The two Professors of Psychology at Harvard discuss controversial issues of gender and science. Sociology, psychology and biology. Transcript here.
producer Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior with Edge.org
featuring Elizabeth Spelke, Steven Pinker
format Quicktime, mp3
date 22/04/05
length 02:05:29
link http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html
direct video link http://mbb.harvard.edu/videos/spelke384K_Stream.mov

Tags: brain video cognitive psychology science gender sex sociology