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

by Sheryl Nestel

Book Overview

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"