Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism /
Arguing that feminism helped to end nursing's subordination to medicine and provided nurses with greater autonomy and professional status, the author examines the impact of second-wave feminism on the nursing field since the 1960s.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press
©2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv2vt0408 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- pt. 1. Nursing in the postwar period
- 1. Hospitals, hierarchies, and the duty to care
- 2. Nursing education in the age of the apron
- 3. Reforming and liberating nursing education
- pt. 2. Nursing and equality feminism
- 4. Nursing education and the end of the apron
- 5. Nursing work, culture, and identity
- pt. 3. Nursing in the era of difference feminism
- 6. Nursing and the feminist enlightenment
- 7. New pathways for nurses
- Epilogue : A more inclusive history
- Notes
- Index.