Obstructed labour
Subtitle: race and gender in the re-emergence of midwifery
By: Sheryl Nestel.
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vancouver, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780774812191
Subjects: Midwives -- Ontario -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Midwifery -- Social aspects -- Ontario; Discrimination in medical care -- Ontario; Minority women -- Employment -- Ontario; Sex discrimination against women -- Ontario
Description: "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 counter-history of the re-emergence of midwifery." --Book Jacket.
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