Locating power, knowledge and subject in nursing.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780494209929
Subjects: The standard (College of Nurses of Ontario : Journal); Nursing -- Canada -- History.; Sex discrimination against women -- Canada.; Racism -- Canada.; Nursing -- Canada -- Political aspects.; Minority prefessonal employees -- Canada -- Social conditions.; Nurses -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Description: The purpose of this study is to uncover how mechanisms of power developed and became entrenched in nursing. Mechanisms of power function within the discourses and exclusionary practices in the nursing profession. I argue that  The Standard, a journal published by The College of Nurse's of Ontario establishes a normalizing process that promotes conformity to the image of white middle-class womanhood for its nursing subjects.This study begins with a historical framework that situates the origins of modern nursing in Victorian times. The themes of professionalism, proletarianization, feminism and exclusion are presented through a deconstruction of the front cover and two letters from the inaugural issue of The Standard. As well, three personal narratives are presented to elucidate the important issues of gender, race and class in the nursing profession today.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1457.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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