Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies and Birth

Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies and Birth
Author: Angela N. Casaneda
Publisher: Demeter Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1772580406

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.

Born to Break the Boundaries

Born to Break the Boundaries
Author: Stacey Santonastasso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781729411728

During a late in pregnancy ultrasound, the doctors diagnosed Nick with Hanhart Syndrome - a rare genetic disorder. They gave him a 30% chance of surviving birth and painted a bleak picture of what his life would be life if he did indeed survive.However, Nick was born to beat the odds and his parents welcomed into the world a happy, healthy, handsome baby boy. Although he has no legs and only one arm with one finger, Nick was raised as an equal to his siblings.For the first time, Nick's mother, Stacey, shares her story with the world. In this first-hand account, she talks about his life growing up and how he used his challenges to inspire others and to build and extraordinary career doing what he loves.

Boundary Violations

Boundary Violations
Author: Tom Cheetham
Publisher: ROBERT LOBIS
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Poetry. "Coming from a rogue scholar of the imagination in esoteric Islam, a book of poems should be of no surprise, but this one sure is. Tom Cheetham plunges us deep into the imaginative realities of a life as far from Mecca as Maine. By turns ludic, dark, elegant, honest, with an enviable sense of the absurd, and with generosity towards existence, Cheetham is ever faithful to the turns of thought and feeling, interleaving the planes of the real into his continuous and wonderfully whacked-out song." Joseph Donahue"

Boundaries

Boundaries
Author: Anne Katherine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1993-11-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0671791931

This book explains what healthy boundaries are, how to recognize if your personal boundaries are being violated and what you can do to protect yourself. It explains how setting clear boundaries can bring order to a chaotic life, strengthen relationships, and enhance both mental and physical health.

The Boundaries of Her Body

The Boundaries of Her Body
Author: Debran Rowland
Publisher: SphinxLegal
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 1572483687

Examines the legal status and rights of women in the United States throughoutistory.

Boundary Born

Boundary Born
Author: Melissa F. Olson
Publisher: Boundary Magic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781503936164

The fractured alliance between witches and the undead is threatened by a series of vampire poisonings and Lex herself is poisoned while she is trying to investigate the cause.

Free Boundary Problems

Free Boundary Problems
Author: Pierluigi Colli
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034878931

Many phenomena of interest for applications are represented by differential equations which are defined in a domain whose boundary is a priori unknown, and is accordingly named a "free boundary". A further quantitative condition is then provided in order to exclude indeterminacy. Free boundary problems thus encompass a broad spectrum which is represented in this state-of-the-art volume by a variety of contributions of researchers in mathematics and applied fields like physics, biology and material sciences. Special emphasis has been reserved for mathematical modelling and for the formulation of new problems.

Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary
Author: Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822313830

In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.

Where to Draw the Line

Where to Draw the Line
Author: Anne Katherine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1439148090

From the author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy limits in many different situations. With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we’ll protect what we value or that we’ll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm. This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries so that we can allow time and energy for the things that matter—and helps break down limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every facet of daily life—from friendships and sexual relationships to dress and appearance to money, food, and psychotherapy—Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways in which individuals violate their own boundaries or let other people breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, she offers specific advice on making choices that balance one’s own needs with the needs of others. Boundaries are the unseen structures that support healthy, productive lives. Where to Draw the Line shows readers how to strengthen them and hold them in place every day.