Obstructed Labour

Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

Sheryl Nestel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2007
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1220-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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 interested in pursuing equity in the struggle for women’s reproductive rights.

Sheryl Nestel teaches in the Sociology and Equity Studies Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction: A New Profession to the White Population in Canada

1 Technologies of Exclusion

2 Midwifery in Ontario: A Counter-History

3 Midwifery Tourism

4 “Ambassadors of the Profession”: The Construction of Respectable Midwifery

5 Narratives of Exclusion and Resistance of Women of Colour

Conclusion: The Construction of Unequal Subjects

Appendix A: Information letter for research participants

Appendix B: Poster to solicit study participants

Appendix C: Chronology of midwifery in Ontario

Appendix D: Interview for immigrant midwives of colour

Appendix E: Interview for white “non-elite” midwives

Appendix F: Interview for white members of midwifery bodies

Appendix G: Interview for women of colour who participated on midwifery bodies

Notes

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2007
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7748-1220-6 / 0774812206
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-1220-7 / 9780774812207
Zustand	Neuware