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Lovie - The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship (Paperback)
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Lovie - The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship (Paperback)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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From 1950 until 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
chronicle of Shelton's life and work, which spanned enormous
changes in midwifery and in the ways women give birth. In this
artful exploration of documentary fieldwork, Lisa Yarger confronts
the choices involved in producing an authentic portrait of a woman
who is at once loner and self-styled folk hero. Fully embracing the
difficulties of telling a true story, Yarger is able to get at the
story of telling the story. As Lovie describes her calling, we meet
a woman who sees herself working in partnership with God and who
must wrestle with the question of what happens when a woman who has
devoted her life to service, to doing God's work, ages out of
usefulness. When I'm no longer a midwife, who am I? Facing
retirement and a host of health issues, Lovie attempts to fit
together the jagged pieces of her life as she prepares for one
final home birth.
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