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The Doula Dialectic : Feminist Rhetorics for Childbirth
by Sheri Rysdam
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Overview
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.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781666955330
- ISBN-10: 1666955337
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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