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Author Hallam, Julia, 1952-

Title Nursing the image : media, culture and professional identity / Julia Hallam.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Description 1 online resource (x unnumbered pages, 240 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Julia Hallam considers the 'image' of nursing and how it has been constructed, contributing to the debates surrounding gender and occupational identity.
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Subject Nurses -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.
Nurses.
Great Britain.
Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Nurses -- Great Britain -- Psychology.
Psychology.
Sex role -- Great Britain.
Sex role.
Professional socialization -- Great Britain.
Professional socialization.
Nursing -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Nursing -- Social aspects.
Feminist theory.
Feminist theory.
Nurses.
Feminism.
Prejudice.
Social Perception.
Stereotyping.
United Kingdom.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Feminist theory.
Other Form: Print version: Hallam, Julia, 1952- Nursing the image. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415184541 (DLC) 00036622 (OCoLC)43752300
ISBN 0203171152 (electronic book)
9780203171158 (electronic book)
0203136020 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780203136027 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0415184541 (cased)
041518455X (paperback)

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