Marie Michael Library

Title

Village Women of Bangladesh

Length

26 min.

File No

195

Format

DVD

Description

An intimate glimpse of the lives of women as seen through their work during the rice harvest in a traditional village north of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After the fieldwork of planting and harvesting - work done by the men - women clean, parboil, dry and husk the grain, creating the end product, rice for income and food.