1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451239503321

Autore

Hallam Julia <1952-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

0-203-13602-0

1-134-66826-0

1-280-01865-8

0-203-17115-2

9786610018659

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

610.7301

Soggetti

Nurses

Stereotyping

Prejudice

Social Perception

Feminism

Electronic books.

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Nursing the images: Media, culture and professional identity; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Illustration acknowledgements; Introduction: (Auto)biography, research and feminist cultural studies; 1. Images, identities and selves; Images: nursing and femininity; Identities: nurses and their professional image; Selves: personal conceptions of professional identity; 2. The popular imagination; Reification and recruitment: images in post-war Britain; Irreverence and romance: the 1950's and 1960's; Fascination and aspiration: the romantic ideal

Soap, sex and satire: the late 1960's and early 1970's 3. The professional imagination; A divided identity; Class divisions: job or profession?; Gender divisions: men enter the picture; Racial divisions:



visible differences; Image and identity: Briggs and the image of nursing; 4. The personal imagination; Self-image and uniform identities; Knowing your place: hierarchy, status and the self; Out of place: re-location, racism and the 'other'; The 'proper nurse': self as image, image as self; 5. The contemporary imagination; Recruitment in crisis; Romance in crisis

Equal opportunities in crisis: medical drama Carry on caring; Notes; References and bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.How has this image come to be constructed?An empirical investigation of representations of nursing practices in Britain focusing on publicity and promotional materials and their relationship to popular fictional narratives reveals a strong correlation between what are usually described as discrete forms of signification. Recruitment images, provide an

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973636703321

Autore

Neigh Janet <1977->

Titolo

Recalling recitation in the Americas : borderless curriculum, performance poetry, and reading / / Janet Neigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Canada : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781487514044

1487514042

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages.) : illustrations

Disciplina

808.545

Soggetti

Oral interpretation of poetry

Performance poetry - Social aspects

Poetry - Social aspects

Poetry - Study and teaching

Recitation (Education) - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and her “Dear Dead Longfellow” -- 2. Langston Hughes’s rhythmic literacy -- 3. Miss Lou pedagogy and mimic women -- 4. Recitation legacies in dub and indigenous poetics.

Sommario/riassunto

Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.--