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Motherhood

Date released

14 Sep 1927

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

328

NoS ID

331699

Story no

4 / 6

NoS synopsis: A nature study.

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Right First Move, The (1992 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £11.76 (+VAT +p&p)

Set in Southampton, shows a number of young people making their first move from home. Covers employment, relationships, rented accommodation, finances, training, council housing, legal status and teenage...

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Grand Isle (1991)

aka: Awakening, The

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 112 minutes), £40.00

A film adaptation of the novel ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin. At the turn of the century in the southern USA, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man....

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Cheating Time (1993 Video)

Producer

Deborah Cadbury

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Asks whether it is possible to rewrite our biological destiny. Already motherhood is possible after the menopause, but it may be possible to rejuvenate the ovaries and reverse the menopause, or at least...

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Mother Love (1960 Video)

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 26 min., 1999 sale: US$279.00 (video)

Shows how Harry Harlow tested the reactions of newborn rhesus monkeys to a variety of unusual ‘mother substitutes’. Discusses his research on the effects of the denial of maternal love and his...

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Wombs for Rent (1997 Video)

Producer

John Drury

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Asks whether it is right for childless couples to ‘rent a womb’ and pay for the services of a surrogate mother. Kim Cotton, Britain’s first surrogate mother argues that we should learn from Bill...

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Contact Comfort (Monkeys and Surrogate Mothers) (1959 Video)

aka: Nature and Development of Affection

Director

Harry F Harlow

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale (video - Insight), Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 19 min., 1999 sale: US$219.00 (video)

Shows H F Harlow’s experiments on the development of affection in primates. Rhesus monkeys, separated from their mothers at birth and raised nursing or non-nursing on cloth or wire surrogate mothers, were...

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Adhiambo - Born in the Evening (2004)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 66 minutes), £50.00

Adhiambo means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the Language of the Luo in western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month of her...

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What Women Want (2004)

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £74.95

It is widely recognised that women’s mental health needs are different from men’s. The National Women’s Mental Health strategy, launched in winter 2002, is bringing big changes to service providers and...

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Riddles of the Sphinx (2013)

Director

Laura Mulvey; Peter Wollen

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £19.99

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 film is a landmark moment in British avant-garde filmmaking which fuses feminist theory with formal experimentation to create an elliptical narrative exploring issues...

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