This idealized story of four years in the life of Kay, Jean, Helen, and Louise evokes the lost world of Iowa State's Home Economics Division in the fifties. When an assembly speaker at the high school talks of girls who studied home economics in college, Kay is smitten. But it is a big thing for someone in her family to attend college. She convinces her parents to make the sacrifice and is so eager to leave that she is packing her bags just minutes after receiving her acceptance letter. There is more than a hint here that she wants something more than her family or high school can ordinarily offer. "What is home economics?" the narrator asks, hinting at the field's complexity: it is an interdisciplinary field that unites the arts andsciences with traditionally female activities, thus feminizing many otherwise neutral activities. In home economics, physics classes teach toaster-testing, and women chemists study the interaction of tomato soup and milk. Says the narrator: "All the classes seemed to fit together. Even the physics class was what a girl would like. It was about physics in the home. This course helped you to understand just what makes things run. Then, in household equipment, you could study the practical side: the use of an appliance. In turn, there were courses in foods and nutrition where you learned the why as well as the how." As a discipline, home economics looks both forward and backward. Although it enables women to leave the home and play essential roles in institutions, corporations, and schools ("She could see herself at the center of a world made up of large ovens and mixers manned by professional cooks"), home economists' work, seen as "women's work," has not been valued as highly as less essential work that happens to be performed by men. Even the professionalization of the home economics sphere has not kept its activities from being taken for granted. Historically connected to social movements like progressivism, to the empowering of women and immigrants, and to activism in the service of public health, home economics has a socially active side as well. Although The Home Economics Story expresses all of these (except social activism), the film emphasizes over and over that, most important of all, the training enables women to take care of their families and children. "Each girl has been preparing for two careers. One her chosen specialty, the other is acareer in homemaking." The students are not allowed to forget that they will be women first and home economists second. Kay fantasizes herself as a wife putting her training into practice at home. And there is a pitch for a traditionally female focus on emotions and psychology rather than on the material world: "The girls learn a lot from the children of the nursery school . . . how habits and attitudes learned at this stage are soimportant in later life. They learn how much depends on getting along with others . . . for, after all, we live in a world where people are more important than things."The Home Economics Story is also a great evocation of fifties college life, rich in culture and prescribed rituals; interestingly enough, at least in the home ec division, it is a world made up almost exclusively of women. Although a few football players and a prom date or two come and go, these four girls and their classmates spend four years together; their last year they even live together in the Home Management house. Louise has "the most envied task"-taking care of a baby. This is a free space for women to learnamong themselves, single-sex education at its most rarefied-at least until Beth first sports her wedding ring.Iowa State College's Film Production Unit made many films relating to home economics, including Yarn About a Kitchen (1955), a time-and-motion study of meal preparation, in which the woman's movements are marked by a three-dimensional trail of yarn throughout the kitchen. As a university production, The Home Economics Story is fascinating to watch and compare with other education.
A high school girl's interest in home economics becomes a way for her to legitimize her desire to attend college. Its easy to ridicule these films, but underneath all their corny imagery we can see how hard it was for girls to have any real educational opportunities after high school. At the time this film was made, many parents didnt see the need for their daughters to attend college. Would Kay, the girl in this film, be allowed to go to college at all if she wasnt majoring in Home Economics? Probably not. I particularly liked the scenes with Kay and her parents poring over the college application. Kay could be the first in her family to go to college and the voice-over reminds us, College for Kay would mean sacrifices for Mom and Dad. Would it be worth the sacrifice? When Kay's college acceptance letter comes in the mail, her mother, humbly wiping her hands on her apron, is standing at her side. Kay has an chance for a larger life that her mother was denied.
This film depicts a woman in her early sixties exploring her sexuality as she stands nude before three mirrors. About 10 years earlier, feeling “fat, flat and flabby,” she decided to do something positive about her self-image. Through exercise, dancing, women’s group activities, nudist activities, and surgery she has developed a positive image and self-concept. This film shows how an older woman has taken responsibility for her own appearance and body functioning and has derived much pleasure from doing something about it. This film is useful for college courses in human sexuality, women’s groups, and with therapy clients.
This is an excellent example of the contribution of audible emoting in total body pleasuring during masturbation to produce maximum orgasmic return. This mature mother is totally involved in self-pleasuring, using vibrators and sounds to enhance her orgasmic responses. This film is recommended for therapy, women's groups, sexuality classes, and particularly useful for pre-orgasmic women.
Two interviews with a 74-year-old male-to-female transsexual. She discusses, pre- and post-operatively, her needs and motivations, techniques, costs, social acceptance and personal fulfillment. Her enthusiastic, matronly image and gracious exuberance make this non-explicit film suitable for presentation to all types of classes and groups interested in transsexuality.
This film documents research involving a young man who has trained himself to become multiply orgasmic. He was filmed in the research laboratory being monitored by an 8-channel recorder while masturbating to achieve seven orgasms and seven ejaculations within a 15-minute period during which the ejaculate was measured and recorded. This film is of interest to students in understanding the techniques, methods and goals of research, and is useful for classes in human sexuality, psychology and health education.
Danny West is a trainer, coach, and leadership consultant, has been living with HIV for the past 24 years, and remains healthy today. One of the reasons that Danny West is passionate about coaching and HIV prevention education is that he wants to provide a positive role model of a person living with HIV. He lives a happy and fulfilled life and he is determined to challenge discrimination and prejudice and influence equality for people living with HIV. For more information, visit RYL Training Consultancy and AIDS Videos.
Everybody is sick and tired of hearing about condoms. So MTV created a new concept that goes straight to the point: #USEITDICK. The campaign contains three films: Male Mermaid, Jumping Jacks and Tennis Player. Each one shows idiot doubts about condoms and the answer always comes from MTV: #USEITDICK. Literally.
Rather than taking a negative approach that uses scare tactics and piles on statistics to deter unsafe sex, DDB made the strategic choice to use humor and shock value. However, it was important for us that our creative response felt empowering to the 55, 60, 65+ demographic. Whether the younger generation likes it or not, our grandparents are having sex. We wanted to make a sexy ad that maintains a level of tastefulness and encourages seniors to enjoy their sex lives –safely.
The White House and Mekanism today unveiled a new PSA, “One Thing,” from It’s On Us - a public awareness and education campaign to prevent sexual assault on college campuses. This is the latest iteration of the ongoing social effort, and the PSA is strategically timed for back-to-school season.The star-studded PSA underscores that sex without consent is rape, and features numerous celebs, including: John Cho, Josh Hutcherson, Haim Sisters, Minka Kelly, Nina Dobrev, Jessica Szohr, Jesse Metcalf, Rachel Roy, Zoe Saldana, Matt McGorry and Dilshad Vadsaria.
Everybody is sick and tired of hearing about condoms. So MTV created a new concept that goes straight to the point: #USEITDICK. The campaign contains three films: Male Mermaid, Jumping Jacks and Tennis Player. Each one shows idiot doubts about condoms and the answer always comes from MTV: #USEITDICK. Literally.
This project, along with our overall Holiday promotion, helped generate enough money to buy more than seven million daily doses of medicine for people living with HIV in Africa. The event set a new Guinness World RecordsTM record for “Most Nations in an Online Sing-along.” The music video topped the Top 20 Viral Videos and has more than 1 million YouTube views. Average time spent on the site on December 7th was 5 minutes, 49 seconds. So far, total site visits are over a million, more than 19,000 love drawings have been submitted, and people from 99 countries have submitted videos.
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