… death midwives offer an opportunity to expand our understanding of gender and occupational
legitimacy … Emerging from a social movement seeking to reclaim death from the profit-…

… Her companion at this birth now belongs to a different culture, a culture that Ortiz and her
sister midwives will have to persuade of the legitimacy of midwifery and the value of their …

… goals are common in both midwifery and biomedicine, the … legitimate enhanced bureaucratic
surveillance of midwives. … fifteen deaths happened outside of a hospital, with a midwife?” …

… and traditional midwives in the Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán. This project
takes a historicized approach, tracing current configurations of race and gender in Mexico …

… regulation and matters of gender and professional status. … The midwife’s role in policing the
legitimacy of children, … practice from an uncertified midwife had led to the death of an infant, ‘I …

… legitimacy frameworks with which to contest dominant competitors. Drawing on qualitative
content analysis of direct entry midwives’ (… construe professional legitimacy through alternative …

… discourses concerning power, gender, professionalism and the medicalisation of birth. …
participants in their research drew on medical discourses in order to legitimate their position …

… perceived legitimacy of death doula services particularly after a death … death midwives
differ from death doulas because, in her view, death midwives such as herself provide ‘pan-death…

… system that reifies strict gender roles and excludes cultural, … specialization as legitimate by
casting midwives as ignorant … ambition to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths. (ii) …

… gender ultimately gave the traditional midwife status as a public actor. In the seventeenth
century, midwives … As births began to outstrip deaths in the first half of the eighteenth century, …