Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise medicine in Canada, she had to overcome society's bias against women in medicine. During her seventy-year career she helped to instigate change in public opinion on that issue, as well as the issue of birth control. The film captures the personality of this remarkable woman through a contemporary interview and re-enactments of episodes from her youth. The sepia tones of the re-enactments are in keeping with the film techniques of the time, giving the viewer a strong sense of the period. The film is of special interest to persons interested in the evolution of women's roles in Canadian society.
Kem Murch
Writer
Mark McCurdy
Director
Nancy C. Johnson
Writer
RBG74%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
My Mom Jayne80%
Maternal Instinct71%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Directed by John Ford70%
Maidentrip70%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
What Is a Woman?68%
The Cheshire Murders65%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Being James Bond77%
180° South72%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
For the Love of Spock73%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Extremis69%
The Corporation76%
Maria by Callas73%
