Dr. Kristin Keefe is featured in the 2004 documentary "The Pursuit of Pleasure" created by Maryanne Galvin. Below is a synopsis of the film from the director's website, a list of awards and festival screenings, and links and reviews about the movie.

The Pursuit of Pleasure
Written, Produced and Edited by Maryanne Galvin
52:00
NR Color 2004

“The Pursuit of Pleasure” is a lively documentary film challenging commonly held beliefs about female sexuality, gender roles, relationships, and satisfaction.  Seven articulate, highly diverse women discuss marriage, celibacy, sexuality, sensuality, incest, gender roles, beauty, sisterhood, community, intimacy and work. 
 
The women, ranging from a GenX midwife to a 94-year-old psychologist and sex therapist, offer varied perspectives on the evolution of Pleasure since the US Women's Movement began over 40 years ago.  They are not high profile activists, but instead real women whose lives are affected by changes in society.

The film intertwines in-depth candid interviews, historical footage, family photos and original music to create a riveting exploration of some of life’s major issues: These women interrogate Pleasure and examine our core desires: joy, physicality, friendship, food, leisure, nature and privacy.

Recent research suggests that women may be having less sex today than women did in the 1950's. Increasingly, women rate self-knowledge, efficacy, communication, emotional closeness and connection higher than hot sex.  The ultimate question posed to the women interviewed in the film is whether intimacy and pleasure without sex is just as satisfying as it's more advertised opposite, sex without intimacy.

• Premiered at the Boston International Film Festival in June 2004, taking home the Special Recognition Award in Documentary Competition
• Screened in August 2004 at The Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Providence Award-Grand Jury Prize in Documentary
• Screened in August (5 screenings) at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Screened at the Bijou Cinema, Worcester, September 2004
• Selected in competition at the New Hampshire Film Exp., October 2004
• Selected in competition (two sold out screenings) at the St. Louis International Film Festival, November 2004
• Selected as (Jury Exhibition) one of the film featured at the Boston Architectural Center's Gala Fundraising Event November 2004
• Invited to the Freedom Cinema Film Festival, Park City Utah, January 29, 2005
• Invited to the Goa International Film Festival, Goa, India, February 2005
• Invited to the Reel Women International Film Festival, Los Angeles, March 2005

Reviews and Links

Worcester native honored for film

… On the same bill, Maryanne Galvin's Pleasure visits seven disparate women who muse aloud upon their societal roles, their hidden passions and their sexuality…
www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2004-11-10/film/film_print.html

… Providence Film Festival award -- Grand prize: The Pursuit of Pleasure by Maryanne
Galvin; First prize: So Glad I Made It by Chris Sautter …
www.projo.com/movies/content/ projo_20040818_festwin.309410.html

… Dr. Maryanne Galvin's documentary "The Pursuit of Pleasure," a look at modern
feminism, took home the special Providence Film Festival award …
www.indiewire.com/onthescene/onthescene_040819rhod.html

… Women's pursuit of pleasure: hooray! Female sexuality celebrated in Boston filmmaker Maryanne Galvin's new documentary The Pursuit of Pleasure. …
www.edifyingspectacle.org/sexuality/blog/archives/gender_studies/index.php

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=32528

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