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I Was A Teenage Feminist (2005)

I Was A Teenage Feminist poster
Original title
I Was a Teenage Feminist
Directed by
Therese Shechter
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
1.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A filmmaker examines why many young women in the 2000s hesitated to call themselves feminists. She interviews both famous activists and ordinary people to trace how feminism has changed shape over decades.

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What happens

I Was A Teenage Feminist is a Canadian documentary film directed by Therese Shechter, produced by UpFront Productions and distributed by Women Make Movies. The title is a play on that of the 1957 horror movie, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. The film explores the marked discomfort among many young, progressive women to identify themselves as feminists and how that discomfort came to be. Through personal narrative as well as interviews with feminist icons and everyday women and men, Shechter's film documents a complex, multi-generational look at feminist identity in today's world. The film had its television premiere on March 8, 2005 (International Women's Day) Canada's W Network, and it won Best Film at the National Council of Jewish Women Film Festival and Special Mention at the Karachi International Film Festival in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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