Nursing & empire : gendered labor and migration from India to the United States / Sujani K. Reddy.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [(c)2015.]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469625096
- 1469625091
- 9781469625089
- 1469625083
- Nursing and empire
- Nursing -- India -- History
- Nursing -- United States -- History
- Nursing -- Manpower -- India
- Nursing -- Manpower -- United States
- India -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Women
- Medical personnel
- Humanities
- Demography
- Organization
- Social sciences
- Health services administration
- Medical care
- Public health
- History
- Nursing
- North America
- Women
- Population Dynamics
- History, Modern 1601-
- Asia, Western
- Health Occupations
- Professional Practice
- Humanities
- Demography
- Organization and Administration
- Disciplines and Occupations
- Persons
- Americas
- Population Characteristics
- Epidemiologic Measurements
- Social Sciences
- Geographic Locations
- Health Services Administration
- Named Groups
- Delivery of Health Care
- Geographicals
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Public Health
- Environment and Public Health
- Emigration and Immigration
- History
- Nursing
- History, 20th Century
- History of Nursing
- Women, Working
- Nurses, International -- history
- Women, Working -- history
- Emigration and Immigration -- history
- North America
- Asia
- United States
- India
- Amérique du Nord
- RT13.5
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | RT13.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn921988562 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Feminizing the Christian medical mission -- Searching for Salome -- Reconstructing the imperial nation -- Remaking mother India -- From Kerala to America -- Putting the "foreign" in nurse im/migration -- Indian nurses navigate the U.S. division of nursing labor -- Workers and wives.
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism.
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