Women of Vision by Alexandra Juhasz

Video (1:23:07): Documentary, Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video (1998) directed by Alexandra Juhasz.

Women of Vision, a 3-part documentary series. Women of Vision highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50’s to the 90’s. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black, white, Puerto Rican, Yugoslavian, Asian American, biracial. They are straight, gay and bisexual. What they share is a need to express their own interpretations of what American culture is and could be and a belief that this work is made particularly powerful through the media. – Alexandra Juhasz

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Publication

The feature-length documentary about feminist media history (1998) is queer filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz’s second large project. A book of transcribed interviews and introduction was published in 2001.

Women Of Vision
Histories in Feminist Film and Video
Alexandra Juhasz
ISBN: 9780816633722
Publication date: April 18th, 2001

Women of Vision (the book) is a companion piece to Juhasz’s 1998 documentary of the same name. The book presents the complete interviews, allowing readers to hear directly the voices of these articulate, passionate women in an interactive remembering of feminist media history. Juhasz’s introduction provides a historical, theoretical, and aesthetic context for the interviews.

Interviewees: Pearl Bowser; Margaret Caples; Michelle Citron; Megan Cunningham; Cheryl Dunye; Vanalyne Green; Barbara Hammer; Kate Horsfield; Carol Leigh; Susan Mogul; Juanita Mohammed; Frances Negrón-Muntaner; Eve Oishi; Constance Penley; Wendy Quinn; Julia Reichert; Carolee Schneemann; Valerie Soe; Victoria Vesna; and Yvonne Welbon.