Beschreibung
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgements; Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies; Images, identities and selves; Images: nursing and femininity; Identities: nurses and their professional image; Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity; The popular imagination; Reification and recruitment: images in post-war Britain; Irreverence and romance: the 1950s and 1960s; Fascination and aspiration: the romantic ideal; Soap, sex and satire: the late 1960s and early 1970s; The professional imagination
Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource ([x], 240 pages)
ISBN:0203136020
0203171152
0415184541
041518455X
9780203136027
9780203171158