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Nursing & empire : gendered labor and migration from India to the United States / Sujani K. Reddy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469625096
  • 1469625091
  • 9781469625089
  • 1469625083
Other title:
  • Nursing and empire
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.17/3068 23
LOC classification:
  • RT13.I5
NLM classification:
  • WY 11 JI4
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references 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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