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Love, Women and Flowers

By Marta Rodriguez and Jorge Silva. This powerful documentary portrays the tragic lives of the 60,000 women who work in the Colombian flower industry which uses highly toxic pesticies and fungicides banned in industrialized countries. Winner of the 1990 US Environmental Film Festival. (58 minutes)

Menopause Metamorphosis

Susun Weed explores menopause as the ultimate woman's mystery and offers simple home remedies for uncomfortable symptoms of The Change. She is joined by a dozen women, aged 38-63, who speak candidly about their experiences during "the three phases of Menopause Metamorphosis: isolation, melt-down and emergence." Filmed at Stonehave, you might see someone you know in the group! (55 minutes)

Creating HealthThrough Menopause

This is a very informative video of a lecture presented by Chris Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, who combines non-traditional healing practices with training as a gynecologist and obstetrician. (54 minutes)