Midwifery as Feminist Praxis in Aotearoa/New Zealand

This thesis highlights the ways in which the practices of contemporary midwives in Aotearoa/New Zealand are caught within the intersection of an array of competing discourses. The context for this is the reconstruction of midwifery in Aotearoa/New Zealand as an autonomous feminist profession founded...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Surtees, Ruth Joy
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1662