Doulas and Intimate Labour : Boundaries, Bodies and Birth, Paperback by Casaneda, Angela N., ISBN 1926452135, ISBN-13 9781926452135, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

This edited volume focuses on doulas and the intimate practices involved with doula care. It raises critical questions about the social and cultural meanings of attending to women during the transition to motherhood. In her book The Tender Gift (1973), medical anthropologist Dana Raphael first applied the word doula to birth culture when