MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | TAKE CARE | SPRING 2023

In the Room:  Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

Jennifer C. Nash • Duke University 

February 6th @ 6pm via Zoom (https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/99404313057)

“In the Room" explores the work of women of color doulas laboring in Chicago in an era where doulas are increasingly hailed -by the state and by activists- as precisely the innovation that can save black mother's lives. Professor Nash's analysis draws on twenty-three interviews she conducted in 2018 with birth doulas-many of whom describe themselves as "bodyguards". She explores the complicated tensions around professionalization and the medicalization of birth that underpins their practice, and considers the place of their work in the ongoing effort to eradicate black infant and maternal mortality.

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