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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Rating 7.5 / 10Release February 19, 2018Runtime 86 min

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.

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