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Author:   Marcus K. Harmes ,  Barbara Harmes ,  Meredith A. Harmes
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9781476684185

ISBN 10:   1476684189
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 November 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents Introduction Barbara Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes and Marcus K. Harmes Section One: Contested Heroines Florence on Film: Representations of Nightingale in Cinema and on Television Richard Bates “Women bow”: The Shifting Power Dynamics Between Nurses and Doctors in Tenko Mark Aldridge The Death of Judy Hill: Arctic Nurses, Northern Bush Pilots and the Crash of ’72 Travis Hay A “Complex Personal Problem”: Reactions to Voluntary Sterilization in 1960s Media Caitlin Fendley M*A*S*H*e*d and Harassed? Nurse Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan as Gendered Hate Object Susan Hopkins Section Two: Seeking the Ideal Caps, Capes, Pins and Scrapbooks: Popular Nursing Objects of Remembrance Jeannine Uribe Picture Perfect? Postcard Images of Nurses and Nursing, 1890–1920 Julia Hallam Seeking Standards: Nurses Real and Fictional and Their Professional Standards in British Popular Culture Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes In Search of Sympathy: Stereotypes and Stiff Upper Lips in Interwar Nursing Sarah Chaney Nostalgia for Spiritual Community Care: Midwifery as Religious Calling in Call the Midwife Morag Martin Media Representation of the Nursing Queen Archetype in Its Socio-Cultural Context Merle Talvik, Taimi Tulva, Ülle Ernits and Kristi Puusepp Section Three: When Nurses Go Wrong Not My Nurse: Pessimism in Representations of Nurses in 1970s Cinema Victoria N. Meyer Lesbians, Nymphomaniacs, and Enema Specialists: Nurses, Horror, and Agency Marcus K. Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes and Barbara Harmes Scary Women: Nurses, Power Relations and Regimes of the Visual Ronja ­Tripp-Bodola Eroticizing the Nurse: (Bi/Homo)Sexuality and Monstrosity in Nurse 3D Tatiana ­Prorokova-Konrad About the Contributors Index

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Marcus K. Harmes is a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. He researches on British popular culture especially science fiction and horror. The late Barbara Harmes was an academic at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Her research focused on English literature and higher education. Meredith A. Harmes teaches at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia and has a research background in political science and British political history.

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