Description
Book SynopsisAnalyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. This work offers a counter-history of the re-emergence of midwifery, a feminist project that represented itself as fundamentally concerned with social equity.
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
Index
