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Doulas and Intimate Care
. Ed(S): Castaneda, Angela; Searcy, Julie
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Paperback. Editor(s): Castaneda, Angela; Searcy, Julie. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way to think about the kind of care doulas offer women across the reproductive spectrum. Doulas negotiate boundaries and often blur the divisions between communities and across public and private spheres in their practice of intimate labour. ... Read more
Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way to think about the kind of care doulas offer women across the reproductive spectrum. Doulas negotiate boundaries and often blur the divisions between communities and across public and private spheres in their practice of intimate labour. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Demeter Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
ON, Canada
ISBN
9781926452135
SKU
V9781926452135
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About . Ed(S): Castaneda, Angela; Searcy, Julie
Angela Castañeda is Associate Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University. Her research in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. explores questions on religion, ritual, expressive culture and most recently, the cultural politics of reproduction, birth and motherhood. In addition to her work as a practicing birth and postpartum doula, she also volunteers as a Spanish childbirth educator in Bloomington, Indiana, where ... Read more
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