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Nursing and Empire Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States / Sujani K. Reddy.
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eBook Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reddy, Sujani K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Working--history--United States.
- Women, Working.
- Women, Working--history--India.
- History, 20th Century--United States.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 20th Century--India.
- History of Nursing--United States.
- History of Nursing.
- History of Nursing--India.
- Emigration and immigration--history--United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--history--India.
- Nursing--manpower--United States.
- Nursing.
- Nursing--manpower--India.
- Nurses, International--history--United States.
- Nurses, International.
- Nurses, International--history--India.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism.
- Contents:
- Feminizing the Christian medical mission
- Searching for Salome
- Reconstructing the imperial nation
- Remaking mother India
- From Kerala to America
- Putting the "foreign" in nurse im/migration
- Indian nurses navigate the U.S. division of nursing labor
- Workers and wives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908457-2-6
- 979-88-908457-3-3
- 1-4696-2509-1
- OCLC:
- 921988562
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