Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism / Susan Gelfand Malka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malka, Susan Gelfand, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses--United States--Social conditions.

Nurses.

Nursing--United States--History.

Nursing.

Second-wave feminism--United States--History.

Second-wave feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Summary:

Beginning in the 1960s, second-wave feminism inspired and influenced dramatic changes in the nursing profession. Susan Gelfand Malka argues that feminism helped end nursing's subordination to medicine and provided nurses with greater autonomy and professional status. She discusses two distinct eras in nursing history. The first extended from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, when feminism seemed to belittle the occupation in its analysis of gender subordination but also fueled nursing leaders' drive for greater authority and independence. The second era began in the mid-1980s, when feminism grounded in the ethics of care appealed to a much broader group of caregivers and was incorporated into nursing education. While nurses accepted aspects of feminism, they did not necessarily identify as feminists. Nonetheless, they used, passed on, and developed feminist ideas that brought about nursing school curricula changes and the increase in self-directed and specialized roles available to caregivers in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Hospitals, hierarchies, and the duty to care

Nursing education in the age of the apron

Reforming and liberating nursing education

Nursing education and the end of the apron

Nursing work, culture, and identity

Nursing and the feminist enlightenment

New pathways for nurses.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Malka, Susan Gelfand Daring to Care

ISBN:

9780252053948

OCLC:

1342502998