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Records the views of midwives from 23 different countries on a variety of issues that affect pregnancy and childbirth throughout the world. The midwives discuss how their culture influences the way in which women give birth and how midwives practice. They give insight into the impact of female genital mutilation and its effects on labour, about women giving birth in concentration camps, and they give a glimpse of the magic that surrounds the birth...
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"Surviving Heroin" will be indispensable for addiction and women's studies scholars and for drug treatment practitioners, social workers, and other advocates for women's health.
This rich ethnographic account of the experiences of 37 women who use methadone--heroin survivors whose lives continue to be controlled by methadone and by the clinics that dispense it--concentrates on women in Florida who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. The authors
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"I realized there was no context in which women ever talk about their vaginas." From this starting point, playwright Eve Ensler began what has become an ongoing odyssey into traditionally forbidden territory. This program captures all the intimacy, emotion, and laughter of Ensler's performance of her award-winning, one-woman play. Between monologues, documentary-style footage is used to explore the creative impetus behind the play as Ensler conducts...
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