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Birth, Sex and Abuse has won several more awards! They include: The International Book Award: 2016 Winner Recognizing excellence in independent and mainstream publishing. The Eric Hoffer Book Award for Legacy Non-Fiction The Eric Hoffer Book Award was founded at the start of the 21st century to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. Honors books from small, academic, and micro presses, including self-published offerings. The Eric Hoffer Monta

Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule has now received a third major book award. This time it is the National Jewish Book Award, in Women’s Studies. The National Jewish Book Awards is “ the longest running awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish Literature and is recognized as the most prestigious”. It is granted by the Jewish Book Council , in America. The awards are designed “to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to furth

Birth Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule has been awarded the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Holocaust Literature. The award citation reads: “Though the subject is horrifying, this book offers a remarkable analysis of the Nazi war against women in all its practical and ideological aspects. The focus on the whispered issue of the abuse of childbearing and sexuality in ghettos and concentration camps underscores the malevolence of the Nazis. It is an imp

I have dedicated my life to studying women’s experiences of pregnancy, birth and the early months of parenthood in industrialized parts of the world as well as in more difficult social, political, religious, and economic circumstances.. All of these settings reveal challenging circumstances ranging from political and economic repression in Apartheid South Africa, and in the former Soviet Union, religiously inspired cruelty of female genital mutilation, and over-medicalization