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Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies and Birth
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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.
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Table of contents
- Doulas and Intimate Labour
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- ForewordROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD
- IntroductionAcross the Reproductive DivideANGELA N. CASTAÑEDA AND JULIE JOHNSON SEARCY
- I.Doulas and Mothers
- 1.Experts in BirthHow Doulas Improve Outcomes for Birthing Women and Their BabiesMEGAN DAVIDSON
- 2.Retrieving the Maps to MotherhoodALISON BASTIEN
- 3.A Doula for the Mother and the SelfExploring the Intersection of Birth and Body CultureSARAH LEWIN
- 4.“Screw You Guys! I’m Not a Bad Person”Disrupting the Damaged Birthmother Model with Doula SupportSUSANNA C. SNYDER
- 5.“When You Go Through Something Like That with Sombebody”Turning Points in the Relationships Between Doulas and Young MothersJON KORFMACHER AND MARISHA HUMPHRIES
- 6.Doulas as Facilitators of Transformation and GriefAMY L. GILLILAND
- II.Doulas and Their Community
- 7.Learning to Walk in WaterInvoking Yemanja on the Doula PathMARIA E. HAMILTON ABEGUNDE
- 8.“What Kind of Doula Are You?”Birth Doulas, Multiple Moralities, and the Processes and Politics of “Ethical Becoming”NICOLE C. GALLICCHIO
- 9. “My Role Is to Walk the Tightrope”Doulas and IntimacyANGELA N. CASTAÑEDA AND JULIE JOHNSON SEARCY
- 10. Providing Boundaries in Postpartum Doula CareJACQUELINE KELLEHER
- III.Doulas and Institutions
- 11. Being a Doula When Birth Choice is LimitedSupporting Birthing Mothers in a Mexican HospitalVANIA SMITH-OKA
- 12. Cultivating Collaborative Relationships in the Provision of Labour SupportDoulas and Labour and Delivery NursesCHRISTINE MORTON, MARLA SEACRIST, JENNIFER TORRES, AND NICOLE HEIDBREDER
- 13.Story-Centred CareFull-Spectrum Doula Work and Narrative MedicineANNIE ROBINSON AND LAUREN MITCHELL
- 14.Between Two WorldsDoula Care, Liminality, and the Power of Mandorla SpacesCOURTNEY EVERSON AND MELISSA CHEYNEY
- 15.Reimagining the Birthing BodyReproductive Justice and New Directions in Doula CareMONICA BASILE
- Contributor Notes