LEADER 03676oam 2200685I 450 001 9910451239503321 005 20210108141628.0 010 $a0-203-13602-0 010 $a1-134-66826-0 010 $a1-280-01865-8 010 $a0-203-17115-2 010 $a9786610018659 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203136027 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252297 035 $a(EBL)165601 035 $a(OCoLC)49569394 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212987 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212987 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10140465 035 $a(PQKB)11035450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165601 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252297 100 $a20180706d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNursing the image $emedia, culture and professional identity /$fJulia Hallam 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-18455-X 311 $a0-415-18454-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 202-230) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aSoap, 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 327 $aEqual opportunities in crisis: medical drama Carry on caring; Notes; References and bibliography; Index 330 $aIdeas 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 606 $aNurses 606 $aStereotyping 606 $aPrejudice 606 $aSocial Perception 606 $aFeminism 607 $aUnited Kingdom 608 $aElectronic books. 615 12$aNurses. 615 22$aStereotyping. 615 22$aPrejudice. 615 22$aSocial Perception. 615 22$aFeminism. 676 $a610.7301 700 $aHallam$b Julia$f1952-,$0893446 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451239503321 996 $aNursing the image$91995854 997 $aUNINA