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Private Lives: Research on Gay Parenting (2002)

Subject

Social Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Researching other peoples’ intimate and private lives raises a whole host of ethical and moral issues. Just how much can we expect the subjects of our research to give, particularly when the research...

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Childbirth and Contraception: Choices and Changes (1990 Video)

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Traces the impact of science and technology on childbirth and contraception, and highlights how women’s choices and chances had altered by 1950. Women from Richmond, North Yorkshire, talk about their...

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Mother Knows Best? (2000)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Explores the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge, using as illustrative examples two common issues facing parents, one old (the child who will not sleep) and one new (the possible side...

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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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Health Visiting and the Family (1987 Video)

Producer

Clare Falkner

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Examines the work of health visitors and how they understand their role. Considers whether their efforts to meet health needs may be mediated by particular cultural views of childhood and motherhood which...

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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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