Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland College Park, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-211) and index.
Contents:
Index. Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 7. Nursing in the postwar period -- 1. Hospitals, hierarchies, and the duty to care -- 2. Nursing education in the age of the apron -- 3. Reforming and liberating nursing education -- pt. 2. Nursing and equality feminism -- 4. Nursing education and the end of the apron -- 5. Nursing work, culture, and identity -- pt. 3. Nursing in the era of difference feminism -- 6. Nursing and the feminist enlightenment -- 7. New pathways for nurses -- Epilogue : A more inclusive history -- Notes -- Index.
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