The Doulas
Subtitle: Radical Care for Pregnant People
Contributors: Mitchell, Lauren (Doula), author; Ross, Loretta, writer of foreword; Parker, Willie, MD, MPH, writer of afterword
Edition: First Feminist Press edition
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2016-11-15
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781558619418
Subjects: Pregnancy; Natural childbirth; Coaching; Doulas
Description: "As more feminism migrates online, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life's physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. They are committed to supporting a pregnancy no matter the outcome-- whether it results in birth, abortion, miscarriage, or adoption-- facing the question of choice head-on. Mary Mahoney is founder and board co-chair of the Doula Project, and a key player in several reproductive justice-focused coalitions and think tanks. Lauren Mitchell is a founder of the Doula Project and co-coordinator of the Reproductive Choices Service of NYC's largest public hospital"--

"Doulas focus on life's physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. This book combines personal narratives, medical experience, and political investigation, into an essential guide to this growing social movement"--
Table of contents: title: Thank God for the doulas! / Loretta Ross; title: An organization on the fringe; title: The beginning. A great idea ; Look but don't touch : Mary and Maria ; How to use your birth doula training ... and how not to use it; title: Doulas for doulas. Before and after : Kat and Kim ; Here for you, here for me : Kira and Lauren ; Walking gracefully through an operating room : Whitney and Shelly ; All the way : Lauren and Jonna ; How to pack a (full-spectrum) doula bag and unpack assumptions; title: Ambiguous losses. Look away : Mary and Sonam ; Open and closed : Lauren, Mary, and Kiya ; How to talk to the press; title: A crisis of self-care. Too much to give : Symone and Carol ; Burning out and coming back : Annie and Lila ; How to self-care; title: Activist practice. The deep end : Talia and Danika ; An unnameable place : Kale and Vicki ; How to build a full-spectrum model; title: Always a doula.