The film is based on interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, and covers the status of women all over the world. The topics covered include forced marriages, sexual assault, female genital mutilation, acid attacks, motherhood, sexuality, menstruation, education and the professional success of women.

I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. —Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837 As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism. Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

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In this series for BBC Two, historian Amanda Vickery uncovers Britain’s longest war, the 300 year long campaign by women for political and sex equality in Britain, revealing the largely forgotten heroines (and a few heroes) who fought for the cause. The suffragette’s battle to win the vote is the popular symbol of this struggle, but Vickery places that struggle in a much wider context, from the Levellers, the first recorded women’s rights demonstration at the time of Cromwell to the first custody battle in court over children in a divorce, producing the first piece of British legislation in support of women’s rights, to the lessons she draws from a woman becoming Prime Minister just 50 years after the franchise was extended to all women over the age of 18 and the ongoing fight for equal status today.

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926.10.15－1984.6.25），法国哲学家，他也是二十世纪最伟大的思想家之一。福柯的效应遍及人文科学，他在哲学、历史、社会理论、文学、艺术、政治学、法学等方面都产生了巨大的影响。 “在某种意义上，福柯写出的是完美之书：每一本书都是一个全新的世界，无论是领域还是材料；无论是对象还是构造本身。他参阅了大量的文献――但是这些文献如此地陌生，似乎从来没有进入过学院的视野中。他将这些陌生的文献点燃，使之光彩夺目，从而成为思考的重锤。有一些书是如此地抽象，没有引文，犹如一个空中楼阁在无穷无尽地盘旋和缠绕（如《知识考古学》）；有一些书如此地具体，全是真实的布满尘土的档案，但是，从这些垂死的档案的字里行间，一种充满激情的思想腾空而起（《规训与惩罚》）；有些书是如此地奇诡和迥异，仿佛在一个无人经过的荒漠中发出狄奥尼索斯式的被压抑的浪漫呐喊（《疯癫史》）；有一些书如此地条分缕析，但又是如此艰深晦涩，这两种对峙的决不妥协的风格引诱出一种甜蜜的折磨（《词与物》）；有一些书如此地平静和庄重，但又如此地充满着内在紧张，犹如波澜在平静的大海底下涌动（《快感的运用》）。” 汪民安导演纪录片《米歇尔·福柯》收集了福柯生前的大量访谈视频，并采访了诸多有影响的福柯研究学者，系统地展示了福柯的总体思想。这是一部实验性的哲学纪录片，也可以称为“论文纪录片”。它旨在让哲学开口说话，让思想获得一种可见性形象。人们能在福柯布道式的宣讲，诚恳的坦白，角斗般的讨论中，也能在众多学者对福柯的精彩阐释中，感受到福柯的哲学和人格魅力。