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11%OFFSheryl Nestel - Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery - 9780774812207 - V9780774812207
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Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

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Description for Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery Paperback. Analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. This work offers a counter-history of the re-emergence of midwifery, a feminist project that represented itself as fundamentally concerned with social equity. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL; MQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774812207
SKU
V9780774812207
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Ref
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About Sheryl Nestel
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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