Caring for Women of Color: Community-Based Doulas' Strategies in Hospital Birth in Los Angeles.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2495633

Kim Sigmund

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Abstract

In the United States, women of color experience worse pregnancy and birth outcomes than white women. Likewise, many women of color report facing discrimination from perinatal health providers, and many experience precarity that can negatively impact birth experiences and outcomes. In this context, more women of color now embrace the use of community-based doulas. Using ethnographic data, I argue that community-based doulas, as members of the communities in which they offer their services, are uniquely able to negotiate the tensions between their clients and biomedical birth practitioners to engender acts of transformative agency and forward the cause of reproductive justice.

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照顾有色人种妇女：洛杉矶社区助产师在医院分娩中的策略。

在美国，有色人种女性的怀孕和分娩结果比白人女性更糟糕。同样，许多有色人种妇女报告面临围产期保健提供者的歧视，许多人经历了可能对分娩经历和结果产生负面影响的不稳定。在这种情况下，越来越多的有色人种女性开始接受以社区为基础的助产师。利用人种学数据，我认为，社区助产师作为他们提供服务的社区的成员，有独特的能力来协调他们的客户和生物医学生育医生之间的紧张关系，从而产生变革机构的行为，并推动生殖正义的事业。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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