The Doula Dialectic

Feminist Rhetorics for Childbirth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Offering firsthand insight into the world of doula work, Sheri Rysdam shows how doulas are well-positioned to engage as advocates, to employ rhetorical strategies to facilitate greater care and consent, and to connect birthing people to community-based care.The author - who is both a trained doula and a rhetorician - uses feminist methodologies to bridge rhetorical strategies and theoretical discussions with personal experience and narrative accounts of childbirth. In doing so, readers get an experiential, embodied, and community-based practice and theory of childbirth and doula work that is situated at the intersection of feminist rhetorics and reproductive justice.With a mix of theory, practice, and experience, this book is relevant to scholars and students of rhetoric, feminist theory, and reproductive justice advocates; childbirth attendants, such as doulas and other nonmedical support people; medical practitioners, including midwives, obstetricians, nurses and their students; pregnant people; and others interested in improving childbirth.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-12
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt287 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666955330

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Acknowledgements PrefaceIntroduction1. Rhetoric’s Role in Doula Work: Feminist Understandings, Analysis, and Activism2. A Long History of Reproductive Violence: Witches, Midwives, Femicide, and Oppression3. Contemporary Childbirth Settings and the Need for Doulas4. Doulas as Advocates5. The Doula-Rhetor: Rhetorical Interventions by Doulas 6. Community Connection: Models for Doula Programs 7. Advocacy in Action: Feminist Rhetorical Strategies for Childbirth JusticeBibliographyIndexAbout the Author