The woman was Zarmina, 35-year-old mother of seven. In a new Dispatches film, Lifting the Veil, Carla Garapedian went to Afghanistan to discover her story and see whether women's lives have improved since the fall of the Taliban. After a secret trial, Zarmina was jailed with her six-...
(A.O. Scott, The New York Times) Award-winning actress Glenn Close gives a “powerhouse performance” (New York Post) as a woman who passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Courtesy of Pandastorm Pictures Starring Glenn Close, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Mia ...
Choosing Cesarean: A Natural Birth Plan considers the fact that cesarean delivery is often portrayed as an emergency procedure, not as a choice a woman and her physician may make for elective reasons, and it provides an argument that such perceptions of cesarean are misguided. It makes a case ...