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- catalog abstract ""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in England from Britain's former colonies to staff the newly created National Health Service, the 'angel' embodied an outdated system of values and practices that had to be challenged."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.".
- catalog contributor b11971901.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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in England from Britain's former colonies to staff the newly created National Health Service, the 'angel' embodied an outdated system of values and practices that had to be challenged."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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "240 p :".
- catalog identifier "0415184541 (hb)".
- catalog identifier "041518455X (pb)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "610.730941 21".
- catalog subject "Feminism Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Feminist theory.".
- catalog subject "Nurses Great Britain Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Nurses Great Britain Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Nurses Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Nursing Social aspects Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Prejudice Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Prejudices Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Professional socialization Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "RT11 .H35 2000".
- catalog subject "Sex role Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Social Perception Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Social perception Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Stereotypes (Social psychology) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Stereotyping Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "WY 16 H182n 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Nursing the image : media, culture, and professional identity / Julia Hallam.".
- catalog type "text".