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Birth story : Ina May Gaskin & the farm midwives / directed by Mary Wigmore and Sara Lamm ; produced by Zachary Mortensen and Kate Amend.
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View online- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaskin, Ina May.
- The farm.
- Midwifery--United States.
- Midwifery.
- Childbirth--United States.
- Childbirth.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 minutes).
- Other Title:
- Ina May Gaskin and the farm midwives
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2012.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- The feature-length documentary BIRTH STORY: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other's babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm. They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation's approach to childbirth.Forty years ago Ina May led the charge away from isolated hospital birthing rooms, where husbands were not allowed and mandatory forceps deliveries were the norm. Today, as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section, she fights to preserve her community's hard-won knowledge. With incredible access to the midwives' archival video collection, the film not only captures the unique sisterhood at The Farm Clinic--from its heyday into the present--but shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it--unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 14, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 881523342
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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