Ask the Author: Beverley Chalmers
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Beverley Chalmers
When I find a subject that I want to read about before going to sleep then I know I've found a subject I could spend the next five years thinking and writing about!
Beverley Chalmers
Keep writing! Eventually thoughts emerge!
Beverley Chalmers
Not two sentences - two words: The Holocaust
Beverley Chalmers
My Romeo and Juliet story! But if I tell you more, it would be a spoiler!
Beverley Chalmers
I love becoming immersed in a new world. Getting to understand and become familiar with a subject as fully as I can is something I find most fulfilling.
Beverley Chalmers
I am part way through my next book that will examine women's experiences of giving birth in technologically advanced countries. Making birth family-centred instead of physician-centred or even only mother-and-baby-centred is a lifelong goal of mine.
Beverley Chalmers
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 of birth in the technologically developed world. None of these, however, comes anywhere close to matching the horrors experienced by those whom the Nazi regime targeted for reproductive and sexual manipulation, and, in the case of Jewish women and babies, extermination.
I became interested in exploring women's experiences during the Holocaust about twelve years ago. This book has had a long gestation but has been one of the most satisfying I have ever written.
I became interested in exploring women's experiences during the Holocaust about twelve years ago. This book has had a long gestation but has been one of the most satisfying I have ever written.
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