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Jennifer Block, author of Pushed will be coming to speak at Hampshire College. In Pushed, Jennifer Block presents a full picture of maternity care in America. A former editor at Ms. magazine, she traveled the country to witness several births (from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth) and to report the experience of women today. Do routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals really equal medical progress? Block investigates this question and more.

Jennifer Block is a former editor at Ms. Magazine and an editor of the revised Our Bodies, Ourselves. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Elle. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please visit her website at www.pushedbirth.com. The event starts at 4pm, refreshments will be served ***Funded by COCA and Five Colleges Culture Health and Science***