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Creche-Lar (1978).First of all, we here are working so they don’t make flower vases or muses out of us.—Mulheres: uma outra históriaA metal worker toiling on the factory floor. A sex worker standing on a street corner. A breastfeeding mother marching in a protest. Contrasting, sometimes contradictory images of women at work recur throughout “Mulheres: Uma Outra Historia,”a new program currently streaming via Another Screen. Curated by feminist journal Another Gaze and the non-profit Cinelimite, the collection presents six short documentaries made by Brazilian female filmmakers spanning the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. Together, these films offer a revelatory insight into the lives of women in the country during a period of social revolution, charting the influence of a growing feminist movement at every level of society, from the chambers of the National Congress to the brothels of the red-light district.The central preoccupation of “Uma...