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COMMENTARY: Midwifery Partnership: Individualism, Contractualism or Feminist Praxis?

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Commentary: It is 10 years since the establishment of the New Zealand College of Midwives as the professional body representing the interests of midwives, and six years since the Guilliland and Pairman (1994) model of partnership monograph was published. The critique of any practice, publication, model of institution is necessary if changes and growth in a profession are to be realised... Skinner's article is a critique of the partnership model (Guilliland and Pairman) and of the foundations on which it is purported to be based. In this commentary I address two main issues, the first being the validity of the critique that partnership only works if the women are "white, articulate, educated, middle class". The second issue is the opinion expressed that partnership is not a foundational principle, which underpins the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document.

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partnership and compliance, professional critique