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How They Saw Us: Is It a Woman's World?

1977 29 min
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This film, made especially for television in 1956, embodies the conventional myth that women indirectly exercise power through their ability to manipulate men through sex and marriage.

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This film, made especially for television in 1956, embodies the conventional myth that women indirectly exercise power through their ability to manipulate men through sex and marriage.

Women All subjects
  • director
    Ann Pearson
  • series director
    Ann Pearson
  • series producer
    Yuki Yoshida
  • series executive producer
    Kathleen Shannon
  • cast
    Peggy Brown
    Fred Davis
    Barbara Hamilton
    Aileen Karness
    Cec Linder
    Veita Linder
    Arch MacDonald
    René Robinson
    Hugh Webster
    Yuki Yoshida

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