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Nursing the image : media, culture, and professional identity
- Title
- Nursing the image : media, culture, and professional identity / Julia Hallam.
- Author
- Hallam, Julia, 1952-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book argues that nursing's professional identity in post-war Britain is a discourse of white femininity that women actively construct and practise in conditions and circumstances not of their choosing. Images of nursing in the media and promotional recruitment literature are juxtaposed with written and oral accounts of becoming a nurse gathered from a diverse group of women. These auto/biographies reveal how a Victorian legacy of white middle-class values, inherited from Florence Nightingale's pioneering efforts to make nursing a respectable profession for women, permeated nursing's professional identity and shaped nurses' attitudes to their working lives. For those deemed 'unsuitable' for training because of their gender, class or skin colour, many of whom arrived in England from Britain's former colonies to staff the newly created National Health Service, the 'angel' embodied an outdated system of values and practices that had to be challenged." "Nursing the Image will be a valuable source for any courses dealing with the social history of nursing, the understanding of health, and women and gender studies, and for sociology courses focusing on the cultural or gendered study of health."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Nurses > Great Britain > Public opinion
- Public opinion > Great Britain
- Nurses > Great Britain > Psychology
- Sex role > Great Britain
- Professional socialization > Great Britain
- Nursing > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Feminist theory
- Prejudices
- Social perception
- Feminism
- Nurses
- Stereotyping
- Prejudice
- Social Perception
- Feminism
- nurses
- feminism
- Social perception
- Prejudices
- Feminist theory
- Nurses > Psychology
- Nurses > Public opinion
- Nursing > Social aspects
- Professional socialization
- Public opinion
- Sex role
- Krankenschwester
- Selbstbild
- Stereotyp
- Geschlecht
- Verpleegkundigen
- Massamedia
- Culturele aspecten
- Beeldvorming
- Nurses > Great Britain
- Feminism > Great Britain
- Prejudices > Great Britain
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Great Britain
- Social perception > Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies -- 1. Images, identities and selves -- 2. The popular imagination -- 3. The professional imagination -- 4. The personal imagination -- 5. The contemporary imagination.
- ISBN
- 0415184541
- 9780415184540
- 041518455X
- 9780415184557
- 9781134668267
- 1134668260
- 9780203136027
- 0203136020
- 9786610018659
- 6610018650
- LCCN
- 00036622
- OCLC
- ocm43752300
- 43752300
- SCSB-1149181
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library