Title: Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism /
Authors: Malka, Susan Gelfand.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Women's Rights; Feminism; Education, Nursing; Women's Rights history; History, 20th Century; Feminism history; Education, Nursing history; History of Nursing; Nursing United States History; Feminism United States History.; Nurses United States Social conditions.; United States; United States
Abstract: Arguing that feminism helped to end nursing's subordination to medicine and provided nurses with greater autonomy and professional status, the author examines the impact of second-wave feminism on the nursing field since the 1960s.
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.