"Breastfeeding. The mere mention of it has many mothers wracked with anxiety (how will I manage with work, other kids, what if I don't make enough milk?) or guilt about not doing it (will I be hurting my child if I choose not to breastfeed? what will people think of me if I choose not to?). This hot-button issue is one we've talked about repeatedly in the media and in celebrity culture. Remember when Angelina Jolie posed for the cover of W nursing...

Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering is as old as human existence. But, how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity-the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation. Blending...

In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.

SALT IN MY SOUL is both a documentary and a coming of age story about Mallory Smith, a young woman figuring out how to live while dying. Mallory’s determination to fill her shortened life with hope, laughter, and love will leave you breathless. Based on the bestselling memoir of the same name, additional private writing, and hundreds of hours of audio and video discovered after Mallory’s death.

This special explores how people in different age groups, from adolescence to senior citizenship, see themselves and their place in America. Through self-shot video, they share common experiences that bind age groups together and generational differences that put them at odds with one another.

Determined to pass on a message of hope and a 'live in the now' mentality, Cristina's second cancer takes a toll on her diminishing body, however her love for Bruce only grows. Bruce stands by her side while juggling work and financial strains. The film follows Cristina's journey into her deep AMOUR, one that supports and lifts her up. If she had to choose between finding this deep and pure love and having cancer, or being cancer free but never experiencing...

MOTHERTIME is a personal video diary that takes us on a corporeal journey in parenting via a small portable Go-Pro camera. Worn by both mother and child, or left on any surface and turned on and off remotely, the camera over the period of a year and a half captures a real-time, sensorial journey spanning the frenetic to mundane. Set primarily amidst scenes at home, the film explores the whimsical, ordinary, sometimes claustrophobic repeating loops...

"The rising percentage of childless women is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated social issues of our time. Never before have more women lived longer before having their first child or remained childless toward the end of their fertility. Nearly half of North American women of childbearing age are childless--a dramatic rise from 35 percent in 1976--yet childless women are still perceived as the exception, not the norm. In Otherhood, Melanie...

Filmed over five years, this documentary chronicles Morgana’s journey from repressed housewife to international “sex-positive at any age” icon, and her struggles with self-acceptance and mental health. An inspiring and uplifting film, taking you on a wild ride that is both intimate and universal.

THE GOOD BREAST blends archival medical films and the history of the mastectomy since William S. Halsted with the surprising journey taken by Dr. Schnaper and her partner to Catania, Sicily, to experience Saint Agatha, the annual festival of the breast and third largest such celebration in the world. Their discoveries reveal surprising connections between contemporary American culture of the mastectomy and this ancient veneration of the breast.