the baby to be born. Since this maneuver requires a significant movement from the standard lithotomy position, it can be substantially more difficult to perform while under epidural anesthesia, but still possible, and can be performed by an experienced delivery room team. Recognition Gaskin served as President of Midwives' Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002. She was featured in Salon magazine's “Brilliant Careers” in 1999. Gaskin's book Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta was named one of the International Planned Parenthood Federation's Top 6 Books of 2011. In 2003, she was made a Visiting Fellow of Morse College, Yale University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of her work demonstrating the effectiveness and safety of midwifery by Thames Valley University, England, on November 24, 2009. She received the American Society for Psycho-Prophylaxis in Obstetrics/Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award (1997), and the Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award. On September 29, 2011, Ina May Gaskin was announced as a co-winner of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award for "her whole-life's work teaching and advocating safe, woman-centred childbirth methods that best promote the physical and mental health of mother and child".Right Livelihood In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Bibliography Books Articles All-Fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During Labor, The Journal of Reproductive Medicine, May, 1998. Induced and Seduced: The Dangers of Cytotec. in Mothering, July-August, 2001. Retrieved: 2006-08-26. The Undervalued Art of Vaginal Breech Birth: a Skill Every Birth Attendant Should Learn in Mothering, July-August, 2004. Retrieved: 2006-08-26. A Summary of Articles Published in English about Misoprostol (Cytotec) for Cervical Ripening or Induction of Labor, 2005-09-05 Retrieved: 2010-01-22. Filmography With Women: A Documentary About Women, Midwives and Birth (2006) The Business of Being Born (2008) Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret (2009) American Commune (2013) Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (2013) Notes and references Voluntary Peasants Labor of Love/The Farm Commune by Melvyn Stiriss, published by New Beat Books, Warwick, NY 2015 External links Farm Midwifery Workshops The Farm Midwives Website Profile by Viv Groskop, The Guardian, September 2009 "Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for at-Home Births" feature by Samantha M. Shapiro in The New York Times Magazine'' May 23, 2012 Living people American family and parenting writers American midwives 1940 births Natural childbirth advocates Peace Corps volunteers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers