Obstructed Labour
Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774840729
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $99.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812207
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812191
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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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 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.