Orgasmic Birth- the movie

The Red Tent Women’s Project is a diverse and dynamic community of women
who are catalysts for social change. By creating safe and empowered
spaces we facilitate community building, information and resource
exchange, and personal growth for women and girls.

The Red Tent Women's Project presents:

A screening of the movie 'Orgasmic Birth' followed by a panel discussion

Monday, October 6, 2008
6:30pm Reception & Silent Auction
7:30pm Screening
9pm Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street, Lower East Side,between Houston and Stanton Sts.
Cost: $20
To purchase tickets and for more information:
<http://redtentscreening.eventbrite.com> or
<http://www.redtentwomensproject.org>

The Red Tent Women's Project invites you to view an amazing new film. A
panel discussion will follow the film screening. Panelists include Jill
Benson, doula; Jennifer Block, author of "Pushed: The Painful Truth About
Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care", Karen Brody, playwright of "Birth",
and Dr. Charley Ferrer, the first Latina doctor of human sexuality in the
US.

Orgasmic Birth dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have
been told for generations. This extraordinary documentary film challenges
cultural myths by revealing the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights
attainable through birth. Viewers witness the passion of birth as 11 women
have their babies in unhurried, nonmedicalized settings--including
hospital birth centers--where they feel supported and safe. Through
interviews with the couples and more than a dozen international experts in
birth, we come to understand that labor and birth were intended to be
enjoyed, not merely endured.

Women's health advocate and bestselling author Christiane Northrup, MD,
observes in the film that people have been "brainwashed" to view birth not
as a natural process but as "an emergency waiting to happen." Yet birth is
an everyday miracle that the body is well equipped to handle, given the
proper setting and caregivers and ample time.

The film demonstrates ways in which modern society, by subjecting healthy
women to the medicalization of birth, denies them a prime experience that
is their right. Among the dozen birth specialists interviewed in the film
are Sarah J Buckley, MD, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering;
Elizabeth Davis, director of the National Midwifery Institute; Marsden
Wagner, MD, former director of Women's and Children's Health for the World
Health Organization; and other physicians, midwives, and experts in the
field.

The Red Tent Women's Project is a grassroots organization dedicated to
empowering and educating women and girls of all backgrounds.

Eryka Peskin
Director
Red Tent Women's Project
338 4th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
<http://www.redtentwomensproject.org>

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