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category: Social Science
published: May 2006
ISBN:9780774812191
publisher: UBC Press

Obstructed Labour

Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery

by Sheryl Nestel

tagged: discrimination & race relations, alternative medicine, post-confederation (1867-), women's studies
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

Sheryl Nestel

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.

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