Birth story : Ina May Gaskin & the farm midwives / directed by Mary Wigmore and Sara Lamm ; produced by Zachary Mortensen and Kate Amend.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2012. |
| Description | 1 online resource (95 min.). |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;2191259 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Wigmore, Mary, director. |
| Other author/creator | Lamm, Sara, director. |
| Other author/creator | Mortensen, Zachary, producer. |
| Other author/creator | Amend, Kate producer. |
| Other author/creator | Ghost Robot (Firm), producer. |
| Other author/creator | Filmakers Library online, publisher. |
| Variant title | Ina May Gaskin and the farm midwives |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 14, 2014). |
| Other forms | Previously released as DVD. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
| Genre/form | Documentary films. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |