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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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In the final episode of her story of British women's fight for power, historian Amanda Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organization and argues it is best understood as part of an ongoing equality struggle. She brings to life the enemies of female enfranchisement, from Prime Minister Herbert Asquith to the National Anti-Suffrage League. We learn about the political backroom deal that finally allowed...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book covers laws affecting cohabiting unmarried couples in a wide variety of areas-family law, debt and credit, real estate, taxes, medical care, insurance, estate planning, etc., and contains sample forms and contracts. Topics include: buying or renting a house; sharing checking accounts, credit cards, and property (or keeping everything separate); having and raising children; writing wills and estate plans; getting authorization to make medical...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2010
Language
English
Description
The announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, would be tried in New York City set off a firestorm of protests. Besides the cost and safety concerns, at issue are whether suspected terrorists should be tried in criminal court or whether national security requires the use of military commissions. Likewise, issues like the closing of the U.S....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gay and lesbian couples have gained a lot of legal ground in recent years. Although same-sex marriage is now legal across the U.S., laws governing civil unions and domestic partnerships continue to vary from state to state. It's still important to define your relationship in the eyes of the law--and A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples can help. This plain-English guide shows you how to: have and raise children through adoption, donors, surrogacy,...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Shirley, Carlene and Ruby have collectively spent over eighty-five years in Missouri state prison, having each been convicted of the murders of their abusive husbands. Beaten, raped, sold, abused and almost murdered, these women suffered for years prior to their desperate crimes. A powerful and poignant insight into the world of domestic abuse, the lives it destroys, and an insensitive US justice system. A shocking film you won't easily forget.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Around the world, battles are being won in the fight for same-sex partners to marry under law and for recognition that gay couples should enjoy the same financial and social benefits as heterosexual couples. However, in Russia, the fight is to stay out of jail or avoid fines for openly identifying as gay. Draconian anti-gay laws are effectively licensing vigilantism as gangs target the LGBT community.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
This episode of The Green Interview features John Borrows, one of Canada's most prolific and celebrated legal scholars and a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Borrows, who is Anishinaabe and a member of the Cape Croker First Nation in Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, has written and spoken widely on aboriginal legal rights and traditions, treaties and land claims, and religion and the law. He points out that the treaties are two-way agreements...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
English
Description
A highly regarded expert on memory's malleability - and a lightning rod for controversy - Elizabeth Loftus has proved that people can become subject to false memory, with major implications for matters involving eyewitness testimony and repressed recollections. In this lecture, Loftus details her research on the malleability of memory. Topics include memory paradigms; memory distortion, as demonstrated by an incident involving Hillary Clinton; growing...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
After the September 11 attacks the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, citing the liberation of the region's women as part of the justification for Operation Enduring Freedom. Five weeks later Laura Bush triumphantly stated that "because of our recent gains in Afghanistan, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes." But had anything really changed? As Suraya Pakzad, director of Afghan Voice of Women put it, "Village men will still trade a daughter...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Language
English
Description
This emotionally charged program filmed in Australia explores the ethics of whether, and in what circumstances, women and men with severe mental or physical disabilities should ever be sterilized. All parties involved desire a better quality of life for people who it is believed are incapable of fully comprehending and then acting on the issues for themselves. But is sterilization, performed in a person's perceived best interests, a humane or an inhuman...
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
The increase in the use of antipsychotic drugs is directly tied to the rising incidence of one particular diagnosis-bipolar disorder. Experts estimate that the number of kids with the diagnosis is now over a million and rising. But are antipsychotic drugs safe for young children? How early in a child's life can mental illness be accurately detected? Is medication really the answer? With the debate over the drugging of America's youth growing more...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about American Indian's tragic history of dispossession. Williams says stereotypes about American Indians have been codified into laws and government policies, with devastating consequences. Williams, who is of Lumbee Indian heritage, says, "very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The rights of children-and of all living things-begin in small places, close to home. This is a poetic and moving adaptation of U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in honor of its seventy-fifth anniversary. In backyards and city parks, in school and at home-wherever and however we move through this world, we have certain inalienable rights-and it's up to each one of us to ensure those rights for others, too. The Universal Declaration of Human...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appeared before the U.N. General Assembly to request full membership for the State of Palestine. Should the United Nations admit Palestine as a full member state? The proposition team argues that status quo negotiations have failed, and U.N. recognition will give Palestine needed leverage. The opposition team argues that unilateral action allows Palestine the illusion of gains without concessions, and with...
Pub. Date
[2009], c2009
Language
English
Description
As many Britons see it, the U.K. has become a nation obsessed with its psychological state, endlessly seeking out new "cures" for every hang-up under the sun. Others, by contrast, argue that the therapy culture has made the U.K. emotionally literate, giving the English a language through which to express their feelings and to change themselves for the better. In the final analysis, has psychotherapy done more harm than good? That is the question in...
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