Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs; Tomes, Nancy

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“…In their seminal 1982 review article, Joan Jacob Brumberg and Nancy Tomes argued that while women's historians had successfully demonstrated that gender was a key factor in structuring occupational hierarchies, historians of professionals did not incorporate gender into their accounts, "even in those historical works that have examined a predominantly female profession." 61 Fortunately, several recent studies have begun to address the issue of gender and professional work, including exemplary studies by Kinnear, Adams and Gidney and Millar. 62 …”

Section: Other Health Care Workersmentioning

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Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Twohig

2009

scientia

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These are halcyon days for health care history in Canada. One routinely sees articles pertaining to health in leading Canadian and international history journals. The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History is a vibrant and important vehicle and there are a growing number of monographs. This essay reviews several of the maturing content areas that now characterize the writing of health history in Canada, including hospital history, nursing history, the history of mental health, and health and medicine in aboriginal settings. This essay seeks to highlight the accomplishments of the field, while reviewing some of the gaps.

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Section: Other Health Care Workersmentioning

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Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Twohig

2009

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“…Nursing care remained more about who one was—a mother, a nun, a hired woman—than about what one knew or did (D'Antonio, ). Meanwhile, unpaid work outside the home and participation in helping charities brought respect and power (Brumberg & Tomes, ).…”

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Louisa May Alcott andHospital Sketches: An innovative approach to gender and nursing professionalization

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Fairman

2017

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Through Alcott's words, we understand the transition of nursing care as a gradual extension of the middle-class woman's domestic role and a progressive definition of nurses' identity. In particular, we highlight how certain professional nursing nuances which appear in the text are compatible with the gradual extension of the boundaries of women's domesticity. Furthermore, Alcott's use of literary devices reveals the delicate balance between women's domestic role and some new nursing professional features, which anticipates nursing professionalization.

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“…Early historical research on women concentrated on activists and ignored or dismissed those who stayed with ‘traditional careers’ (including teaching, nursing, library science and home economics), failing to note that such fields were relatively new for women and just gaining professional status. For a challenge to that perspective see Brumberg, J. J. and Tomes, N. ().…”

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Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930

Kohlstedt

2013

Centaurus

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Women educators played an essential role in transforming public museums that had been focused on collections and research into effective educational and informational sites that engaged broad publics. Three significant innovators were Delia Griffin of St. Johnsbury Museum in Vermont who emphasized hands-on learning, Anna Billings Gallup who shaped a distinctive model museum for children in Brooklyn and Laura Bragg of the Charleston Museum who established strong collaboration with the local public schools. Joining museum curatorial staffs and professional associations that were largely male, these women educators and their peers typically provided pedagogical insights and teaching skills that enabled them to work effectively with school systems, teachers, pupils and parents. Genuinely interested in natural science, they shaped careers which included opportunities to engage with science, provided a considerable degree of autonomy and enabled them to experiment with hands-on learning. They built networks of museum educators and influenced the young American Association of Museums. Women museum educators created a bridge between semi-public natural history establishments for collection, preservation and scientific research and an active audience of teachers, pupils, visitors and patrons. Their efforts transformed museums into sites for education and broad public access to science in the early 20th century.

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Women in the Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Recent Writing on Health Care History in Canada

Louisa May Alcott andHospital Sketches: An innovative approach to gender and nursing professionalization

Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930

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