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Record Nr.

UNINA9910639889703321

Autore

McTaggart Breda

Titolo

The Nursing Profession and the Marriage Bar : Crisp White Uniform / / by Breda McTaggart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9789811970337

9789811970320

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 pages)

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Social medicine

Nursing

Medical care

Medical anthropology

Public health

Health, Medicine and Society

Health Care

Medical Anthropology

Public Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Evolution to Revolution -- Chapter 1: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2: Ireland’s Marriage Bar: The Gold Sovereign -- Chapter 3: A Landscape for Change -- Part II: Nurses Returning to Work -- Chapter 4: A Returning Workplace -- Chapter 5: Homelife, a Balancing Act -- Chapter 6: Community Response -- Part III: Legacy and Lessons -- Chapter 7: Lessons Learned from the Past to Inform the Future -- Chapter 8: Final Thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession. Information on the history of nursing and the evolution of the nursing profession tends to focus on critical events or key persons who shaped the profession. What is less known and explored is the women nurses' work experiences or how the world outside the ward affected the nurse



and the nursing profession at moments in time. This book takes one of these moments in time, the period of the Marriage Bar, and examines the women nurses' lives and the nursing profession during this period of Ireland's history. It does so by adopting a historical perspective and a lived experience perspective of women who had to negotiate this practice. Fifty years on from the Bar removal, as remnants of this time in Ireland's history remain, legislative and constitutional change are required to right the wrongs of the past. Dr Breda Mc Taggart is Head of Faculty of Business and Social Sciences Sligo College, Atlantic Technological University, Ireland.