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Murshidat: Female Primary Health Care Workers Transforming Society in Yemen
- Topics: Women's health and women healers in Yemen
- Brief Summary: This film highlights a developing program designed to educate and provide women with healthcare, and to train local women as midwives and healthcare providers in Yemen. Several other current issues in anthropology, including gender relations, the feminization of poverty and immigration are discussed. Directed and narrated by anthropologist Dolores Walters.
- Date of Release: 1999
- Length: 38 minutes
- Where was it produced/filmed & in what language: Penn State Media, English
- Where to get it: Penn State Media Sales
