A non-profit organization that supports women through worship, learning, leadership, community and social justice, SWUUW discusses women's issues, explores feminist theology, promotes friendships and celebrates the diversities that makes us individual women on our individual spiritual paths. SWUUW is a district-wide organization open to all UU Women's Groups and women in the Southwest Conference area. |
Women's Health
Monday, 09 November 2009 14:40 | 
Written by SWUUW | 
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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)