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Synopsis
Nurses represent an important part of the professionally trained female workforce and, as a middle-class profession, changes in nursing reflect changes of many working women worldwide. Scholarship addressing its changes, however, often consists of narratives of nurses talking about themselves, lacking a substantial theoretical background so as to foreground hypothesis. This book remedies this problem by bringing fresh insights from recent research.
Synopsis
Part I.- Chapter 1: Overview of the Study.- Chapter 2: Nursing as a profession: old tensions, new insights.- Chapter 3: Nursing the status: the construction of work and social class identity.- Chapter 4: Redoing gender in nursing.- Chapter 5: Red and blue: competing for jurisdiction, losing in power.- Part II.- Chapter 6: The time has come: changing patterns of power.- Chapter 7: The organisation, the background, the landscape: navigating the reforms.- Chapter 8: Nurses in the new landscape of interprofessional relations.- Chapter 9: A note on methodology.