# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ina-may-gaskin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:23:09.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ina-may-gaskin"
name: "Ina May Gaskin"
slug: "ina-may-gaskin"
description: "Ina May Gaskin is an American midwife who has been described as \"the mother of authentic midwifery.\" She helped found the self-sustaining community, The Farm, with her husband Stephen Gaskin in 1971 where she markedly launched her career in midwifery. She is known for the Gaskin Maneuver, has written several books on midwifery and childbirth, and continues to educate society through lectures and conferences and spread her message of natural, old-age inspired, fearless childbirth."
tagline: "American midwife (*1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ina_May_Gaskin_lecture_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festival%2C_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.568296795952782
  historical:           12.82992133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2752176"
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    url:       "http://inamay.com/"
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    title: "إينا ماي غاسكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ina May Gaskinová"
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    title: "اینا می گسکین"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump