San Antonio College will celebrate Women's History on March 3-7, with a week of activities on the theme "Women in the Natural World," focusing on issues related to nature and the environment, women in the natural sciences, conservation, animal protection, native women's traditions in health, agriculture and land use, health and beauty.  For more details, contact co-chairs Marleen Hoover, Associate Professor of Visual Arts & Technology, at 210-733-2896, or Celita deArmond, Library Instructor, at 210-785-6366, or go to the Women's History Week 2008 website at http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/WOMEN.htm.
 
"As this is an anniversary year for Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," her groundbreaking book on environmental issues, a few films have been selected for viewing during Women's History Week to highlight this crucial issues among the world's women and families," said DeArmond.
 
These films include "Love, Women and Flowers" (about the health effects of pesticides in the Columbian flower industry), "Rachel's Daughters" (which follows women trying to unearth possible environmental causes of breast cancer), and "Troubled Harvest" (about the lives of women migrant workers and the health effects of pesticides on them and their children.
 
The following activities are free and open to the public, although films are open only to San Antonio College students, faculty and staff.  Events will be held in the Visual Arts & Technologies Center (corner of Dewey and Lewis streets), Room 120.
 
Monday, March 3:
11 a.m. ‹ Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas & Husband-Hunting Harems:  Decoding Reality TV's Twisted Fairy Tales, by Jennifer L. Pozner, journalist, lecturer and founder of Women in Media and News (WIMN).  Sponsored by Programs & Services for Women & Non-Traditional Students and the Office of Student Life.
 
Tuesday, March 4: 
8:30-9:20 a.m. ­ Coffee and Reception to welcome keynote speaker.
 
9:25 a.m.-10:40 a.m. ­ Keynote Address: Women and Plants:  A Fruitful Topic, by Professor Ann B. Shteir, Women's Studies & Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada.
 
10:50 a.m.-12:05 p.m. ­ Film Screening: "Eternal Seed," about Indian women 's struggles to use the traditional farming practices instead of chemically based agriculture is depicted. The film celebrates the scientific basis of women's native traditions and the evolving meanings of healthy land use,
1996 (43 minutes).
 
12:15­1:30 p.m. ‹ Looking at the Overlooked: Women, Science and Still-Life Painting in 17th Century Europe, by Debra Schafter, Associate Professor, San Antonio College, Visual Arts Department and Technology Department
 
1:40-2:55 p.m. ‹ Film Screening:  "The Vagina Monologues," a one-woman play created and performed by Eve Ensler for HBO, 2002 (76 minutes).  This film contains adult content.
 
Wednesday, March 5:
9-9:50 a.m. ­ Film Screening:  "Amazon Sisters," about the vision and strength of women surviving in the hotly contested Amazon rainforests is portrayed.  This film depicts the plight of the human inhabitants, showing women at the frontline of the struggle to save their environment and rebuild after the effects of inappropriate development, 1992 (60 minutes).
 
10-10:50 a.m. ‹ Film Screenings:
"Killing Us Softly," which discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on their images of themselves, 2000 (34 minutes).
 
"Wet Dreams and False Images," a Sundance award-winning documentary uses humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection, 2004 (12 minutes).
 
11­11:50 a.m. ‹ Women's Field Army:  Women Teaching Women About Cancer Since 1930, by Dr. Kirsten Gardner, UTSA history professor.
 
 Thursday, March 6:
8-9:15 a.m. ­ Rachel Carson's Silent Spring:  the Classic that Launched the Environmental Movement, by Robin McGilloway, SAC biology professor.
 
9:25-10:40 a.m. ­ Film Screening:  "Rachel's Daughters:  Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer." The documentary follows a group of women who are on a personal mission to unearth the causes of breast cancer. Seeing themselves as spiritual heirs to Rachel Carson, they focus on issues including chemical contamination, radiation, and electromagnetic exposure,
1997 (107 minutes).
 
11 a.m.-12:05 p.m. ­ Don¹t Take No for an Answer, by Lynn Cuny, Founder/Director, Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, Inc.
 
12:15-1:30 p.m. ­ Film Screening:  "Love, Women and Flowers." The film explores hazardous labor conditions that endanger the 90,000 women who work in Colombia's flower industry.  According to a 2007 report, approximately 60 percent of all flowers sold in the U.S. come from Colombia, where the use of pesticides and fungicides has drastic health and environmental consequences,
1998 (58 minutes).
 
1:40-2:55 p.m. ‹ Artist Talk:  Of Women Born, by Justine Kurland, artist and photographer.
   
Friday, March 7:
9-9:50 a.m. ­ They All Want Magic:  Curanderismo in San Antonio Dr. Elizabeth de la Portilla, UTSA, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
 
10-10:50 a.m. ­ Film Screening: Troubled Harvest.  Troubled Harvest is an award-winning documentary that examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests in Califormia and the Pacific northwest, 1990 (30 minutes).
 

11-11:50 a.m. ­ Film Screening:  "My Left Breast,"an inspiring and witty documentary about Newfoundland filmmaker Gerry Rogers and her ordeal with breast cancer, 2000 (57 minutes).