Daring to Care
Subtitle: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252032479
Subjects: Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; History; Nursing - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Feminism; Nurses; Nursing; Social conditions; United States
Description: 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.