Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism

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Title:

Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism

Author:

Malka, Susan Gelfand.

Personal Author:

Malka, Susan Gelfand.

Publication Information:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Physical Description:

xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

General Note:

Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland College Park, 2003.

Language:

English

Contents:

List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nursing in the postwar period -- Hospitals, hierarchies, and the duty to care -- Nursing education in the age of the apron -- Reforming and liberating nursing education -- Nursing and equality feminism -- Nursing education and the end of the apron -- Nursing work, culture, and identity -- Nursing in the era of difference feminism -- Nursing and the feminist enlightenment -- New pathways for nurses -- Epilogue : A more inclusive history -- Notes -- Index.

Subject Term:

Nursing -- United States -- History.

Feminism -- United States -- History.

Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.

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Electronic Access:

Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019533.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007019533-b.html
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