parallel

Okay, so the parallel that I can think of to compare to the women's suffrage movement that is definitely not obvious or that I know a lot about would be the movement for home births/ natural births and the rising use of doulas for the birth process.  A doula is a licensed and trained professional "birth expert" I would say, whose role is to be there for not only the expectant mother, but the whole family unit or lack there of throughout the entire pregnancy up until the child is one year old.  This doula gives educational materials, emotional and physical support to the mother and whose main charge is giving the power of choice back to the mother- reminding her that women’s bodies are made for giving birth and that all of the things set up and “highly recommended” in hospitals are not always necessary.  This movement is what I believe may be in a resistance to the medicalization of society- of deviance- which creates everyone, with natural human variations, as “sick” and therefore medicines are created, pushed and profited from, by the healthcare profession and not always the “customer.”