Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
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Sheryl Nestel (Author)
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Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. Global macroprocesses of power, institutional forms of exclusion, and interpersonal expressions of racism all play a part. Sheryl Nestel shows that unequal relations between women underlie the successful challenge to patriarchal medical authority mounted by provincial midwifery activists. This is a disquieting but fascinating counter-history of the re-emergence of midwifery.
Obstructed Labour should be read by those who want to understand how racism works in both policy and everyday practice as well as by those interested in pursuing equity in the struggle for women's reproductive rights.
About the Author
Sheryl Nestel teaches in the Sociology and Equity Studies Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
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- Contributor: Sheryl Nestel
- Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
- ISBN13: 9780774812191
- Number of Pages: 208
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 420
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Release Date: 2006-05-31
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Sheryl Nestel teaches in the Sociology and Equity Studies Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
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