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Les Innocents: Women Helping Women

Les Innocents: Women Helping Women

Update: 2025-09-15
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Liberty Barnes discusses a French film about women's trauma during WWII and how difficult films can help us build empathy.

Les Innocents (2016) is about a French doctor in Poland who discovers that a local convent is dealing with the aftermath of Soviet assault--many of the nuns are pregnant and must reconcile their religious vocation with their lived experience.

Liberty Barnes, PhD, is a medical sociologist and ethnographer, whose first book, Conceiving Masculinity, won the 2015 Sociology of Health and Illness Book of the Year Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California-San Diego and completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge University and the University of Oregon.
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Les Innocents: Women Helping Women

Les Innocents: Women Helping Women