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This film explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of American life. The most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. The knee-jerk response is to ask, 'why doesn't she just leave?' Private Violence shatters the brutality of this logic. Through the eyes of two survivors we bear witness to the complicated and complex realities of intimate partner violence.

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Breaking Barriers: Women in History

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After the 1960s, many women found their lives had barely altered. By the 1970s, the Women’s Movement caused seismic shifts, political and personal.

Virago Women: Birth of the Women's Liberation Movement

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The 1960s may have carried the promise of "free love" and alternative culture, but for many women, life and expectations remained largely unaltered. It wasn't until the 1970s that the Women's Liberation Movement triggered significant changes in the world, transforming publishing and literature. In 1973, a group of women founded Virago Press, an imprint created to represent the 52 percent of the population. Their mission was to give women a voice, restore their history, and reclaim women's literature. Follow the journey of these determined women from 1973 to the present, as they published books that reshaped the world's perspective on women.

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