Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

by Sheryl Nestel

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0774812206

ISBN13:9780774812207

Release Date:March 2007

Publisher:UBC Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Americas Canada Discrimination & Racism Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies History Humanities Medicine Midwifery Minority Studies Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Women's Studies

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