Doulas and Intimate Labour - Boundaries, Bodies and Birth (Paperback)

Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way to think about the kind of care doulas offer women across the reproductive spectrum. Doulas negotiate boundaries and often blur the divisions between communities and across public and private spheres in their practice of intimate labour. This book weaves together three main threads: doulas and mothers, doulas and their community, and finally, doulas and institutions. The lived experience of doulas illustrates the interlacing relationships among all three of these threads. The essays in this collection offer a unique perspective on doulas by bringing together voices that represent the full spectrum of doula work, including the viewpoints of birth, postpartum, abortion, community based, adoption, prison, and radical doulas. We privilege this broad representation of doula experiences to emphasize the importance of a multi-vocal framing of the doula experience. As doulas move between worlds and learn to live in liminal spaces, they occupy space that allows them to generate new cultural narratives about birthing bodies.

General

Imprint:	Demeter Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	Angela N. Castaneda • Julie Johnson Searcy
Foreword by:	Robbie Davis-Floyd
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-926452-13-5
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > General
LSN:	1-926452-13-5
Barcode:	9781926452135

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