Title: Obstructed labour
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Discrimination in medical care, Employment, Midwifery, Midwives, Minority women, Sex discrimination against women, Social aspects, Social aspects of Midwifery, Social conditions, Race discrimination, Sages-femmes, Conditions sociales, Aspect social, Discrimination raciale, Femmes issues des minorités, Travail, Legal status, laws, Nurse Midwives, Continental Population Groups, Prejudice, Women, Racial Groups
Places: Ontario
Time periods: 20th century