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Obstructed Labour

Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

by (author) Sheryl Nestel

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840729
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812207
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812191
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

About the author

Awards

  • Winner, Book Award, Canadian Women's Studies Association

Contributor Notes

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