Posts tagged “women’s health”
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Ina May Gaskin Seminar at University of Toronto
March 26, 2011
March 25-26, 2011, Ina May Gaskin will be holding a two-day seminar discussing her new book Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta. Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth. This is a two-part event. On Friday the 25th from 6:30-9:00pm the seminar is open to the general public. Saturday’s all-day seminar from 8:30am-4:30pm is open to birth professionals. Location: Victoria University at University of Toronto 91 Charles St. West Toronto ON Canada. For more information and to register go to http://birthconferences.com/Ina_May_Toronto/Ina_May_in_Toronto.html
Tags: birth conference, birth matters, birth professionals, ina may gaskin, nonfiction, seminar, toronto, victoria university, women's health
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Birth Day Presence Workshop with Ina May Gaskin
March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011, 7:00-9:00pm, Ina May Gaskin will be holding at workshop with Brith Day Presence. The special workshop for midwives, doulas, and birth assistants will teach techniques Gaskin learned to keep labor moving along, specifically techniques to correct or deal with OP positions, ascynclitism, and should dystocia. She will also present the goals of the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. Ina May is also promoting her new book Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta. Cost of the workshop is $65 payable by check, $67 by credit card. Email doulas@birthdaypresence.net to register. Location: 580 Broadway, Suite 304, between Prince and Houston New York, NY 10012.
Tags: birth day presence, birth matters, birth professionals, ina may gaskin, new york city, nonfiction, women's health, workshop
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Birth Matters
December 3, 2010
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women’s rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human.
Tags: birth matters, ina may gaskin, midwifery, women's health
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Sabrina Chapadjiev interview on Live Through This
October 5, 2010
I was very clear with the authors that I was more interested in them talking about how they created — those environments, more than the environments and methods where they destroyed themselves. I do a workshop on art and self-destruction. In one exercise, we describe the physical environment where we hurt ourselves — where do we do it — what’s happening. We write this anonymously and read — and it’s always the same room. It’s always the same dark room, and the shades are drawn, and the air is crystallized with an uncertainty of our fate. We know those dark places so well; we don’t need them described. What is far more important, is seeing the environment of the way out. — Sabrina Chapadjiev, interviewed for Mildred Pierce
Tags: bell hooks, carol queen, interviews, kate bornstein, lgbt issues, live through this, megan milks, montevidayo.com, sabrina chapadjiev, women's health, women's issues
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Amy Steele of Entertainment Realm reviews In Our Control
June 30, 2010
In Our Control doesn’t read like a scientific article but a wise and thoroughly researched expose on all aspects of contraception. Eldridge writes in a practical, often conversational format which should appeal to readers at all interest levels. … In Our Control should be kept on one’s bookshelf for reference next to Our Bodies, Ourselves and FLOW. — Amy Steele of Entertainment Realm’s review of In Our Control
Tags: birth, health, In Our Control, Laura Eldridge, reviews, women's health, women's issues
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Leora Tanenbaum on Reality Check
June 8, 2010
From the June 6 edition of the podcast “Reality Check,” here’s Leora Tanenbaum talking to Amanda Marcotte about bad shoes, bunions, and the troubled relationship between fashion and women’s health. Listen at the Reality Check website by clicking here.
Tags: amanda marcotte, interviews, leora tanenbaum, podcast, reality check, women's health, women's issues
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The Baddest Shoes Contest winners announced!
June 4, 2010
The results are in, the judges have deliberated, and Seven Stories Press is pleased at last to announce the winners of the BADDEST SHOES CONTEST, celebrating the publication of Leora Tanenbaum’s new book Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love…
Tags: bad shoes, contests, desiree stimpert, fashion, johanna youner, leora tanenbaum, tip top shoes, women's health
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Ms. Magazine reviews In Our Control
May 21, 2010
Laura Eldridge’s new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s. … Eldridge learned women’s health writing at the side of the late women’s health advocate and activist Barbara Seaman, and it shows. She contextualizes her work with her own experience and preferences, but provides thorough documentation so that women can more easily make their own decisions. This is women’s health activism at its best. — Elizabeth Kissling, Ms. Magazine
Tags: barbara seaman, In Our Control, Laura Eldridge, ms magazine, reviews, women's health, women's issues
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Bad Shoes reviewed at Juxtapoz
May 19, 2010
Growing up in a home where my mother covered the floor of her closet with pumps, sandals, flats, and more shoes than Imelda Marcos could shake a foot at, it’s no wonder that at 25 my shoe collection is nothing to play with. Being that my closet is filled with heels ranging from 3 ½”- 5”, I was quite skeptical when I began reading Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them by Leora Tanenbaum. While I do not plan on trading in my Calvin Klein platforms for a pair of Aerosoles, I have been convinced to be a bit more practical when deciding which shoes to wear to work versus the ones to wear on date nights.
Leora Tanenbaum is no stranger to shining a light on some of the everyday issues that plague women in this seemingly modern age, her first three books dealt with slut-bashing, cat-fighting, and women reclaiming God. As a feminist writer, it seemed only natural for her to tackle to phenomenon of perfectly sensible women wearing shoes that are unhealthy in the name of fashion and feeling feminine. In the attempt to issue a much needed wake up call to the stilettoed masses, Tanenbaum enlists a bevy of experts on feet, fashion, and the Carrie Bradshaw wannabes who walk Manhattan in Louboutins to the detriment of their bodies. … Overall the book is not a call for us to burn our heels but for us to become more informed consumers. —M.I.S.S. at Juxtapoz
Tags: bad shoes, fashion, juxtapoz, leora tanenbaum, reviews, women's health, women's issues
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Laura Eldridge and In Our Control in USA Today
May 12, 2010
[Laura] Eldridge, the author of In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women, due out next month, says she went on the pill at age 18.
By her mid-20s, “I started having a lot of problems” — irregular bleeding, premenstrual syndrome. After trying five different types of the pill, Eldridge, now 30 and married, gave up and got a diaphragm, a device some peers find quaint.
“There are a lot of women who are not happy on the pill,” she says. “We can have respect for different methods and different choices.” —USA Today, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill
Tags: barbara seaman, birth control, In Our Control, Laura Eldridge, pill, usa today, women's health
“women’s health” Posts
- Mar 26, Ina May Gaskin Seminar at University of Toronto
- Mar 7, Birth Day Presence Workshop with Ina May Gaskin
- Dec 3, Birth Matters
- Oct 5, Sabrina Chapadjiev interview on Live Through This
- Jun 30, Amy Steele of Entertainment Realm reviews In Our Control
- Jun 8, Leora Tanenbaum on Reality Check
- Jun 4, The Baddest Shoes Contest winners announced!
- May 19, Bad Shoes reviewed at Juxtapoz
