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Small family, happy family / written by Tommi Mendel and Brigitte Nikles ; directed and produced by Annie Munger and Zoe Hamilton.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 651
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demographic transition--India.
- Demographic transition.
- Childbirth--India.
- Childbirth.
- Birth control--Social aspects--India.
- Birth control.
- Population policy.
- Birth control--Social aspects.
- India--Population policy.
- India.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (39 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2019.
- Language Note:
- Dialogue in in English, Hindi, and Thethi with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- DVD video
- region all
- video file
- Summary:
- Mitilesh, a young woman from rural Madhya Pradesh, is recruited by health workers in her village to undergo sterilization and decides with her husband to pursue the surgery. Her story is situated in the larger context of population control in India, revealing how these policies affect the lives of women. The film offers a highly personal glimpse into the lives of women positioned at the turbulent nexus of government policy and reproductive rights.
- ""Marry young, have two children, and get sterilized" is the advice women across India have heard for decades. Families, health workers, the central government all spread the same message. With limited information about other forms of birth control, sterilization is the only option for many. This lack of choice is not an oversight by the government; rather, it's a deliberate policy aimed at controlling India's growing population. Women are corralled into temporary "camps" where hundreds are sterilized at a time. Quality is sacrificed for quantity; individual attention for efficiency.Small Family, Happy Family follows Mitilesh, a young woman from rural Madhya Pradesh, as she is recruited by health workers in her village to undergo sterilization and decides with her husband to pursue the surgery. Her story is situated in the larger context of population control in India, revealing how these policies affect the lives of women. The film offers a highly personal glimpse into the lives of women positioned at the turbulent nexus of government policy and reproductive rights. In Mitilesh we see so many other women - in India and in our own countries - who also have tenuous control over their bodies and choices." -- From back cover.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 28, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1243002175
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