Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship
(Part of the Documentary Arts and Culture Series)
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From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was about giving life, was conspicuously marked by loss, including the untimely death of her husband and the murder of her son.
Lovie is a provocative...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1469630052
ISBN13:9781469630052
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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