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OverviewObstructed 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sheryl NestelPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780774812191ISBN 10: 0774812192 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 31 May 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsAn important, at times heartbreaking, account of some of the contradictions at the heart of the new midwifery. This is a book that those of us in medical sociology, women's studies, and critical race studies will want to read and to think about. And those of us who care - care deeply - about the past, present, and future of midwifery need to read this book. - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption ""An important, at times heartbreaking, account of some of the contradictions at the heart of the new midwifery. This is a book that those of us in medical sociology, women's studies, and critical race studies will want to read and to think about. And those of us who care - care deeply - about the past, present, and future of midwifery need to read this book."" - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption"" """An important, at times heartbreaking, account of some of the contradictions at the heart of the new midwifery. This is a book that those of us in medical sociology, women's studies, and critical race studies will want to read and to think about. And those of us who care - care deeply - about the past, present, and future of midwifery need to read this book."" - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption""" Author InformationSheryl Nestel teaches in the Sociology and Equity Studies Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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