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Sairey Gamps, Feminine Nurses and Greedy Monopolists: Discourses of Gender and Professional Identity in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1886--1902 (2012)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 29, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 49-68

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Professional qualifications; status; remuneration Medicine and gender Nurse midwives Professions and professionalization 19th century 20th century, early Great Britain

The British debate over midwife registration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was highly gendered. Focusing on the period between the 1886 Medical Act and the 1902 Midwives Act, this article uses the content from the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, the two main general medical publications of the time, to explore the complex ways that gender works through other categories such as class and race to create professional identity. Specifically this article demonstrates how man-midwives used gendered language to help create identities for themselves, female midwives, and other rivals in order to legitimize their own professional identity and practice and to delegitimize the professional identities of their competition. Résumé. Le débat britannique sur l'enregistrement des sages-femmes au tournant du 20e siecle, précisément entre la loi médicale de 1886 et celle de 1902 sur les sages-femmes, a été fortement genré. Cet article utilise le contenu des revues The Lancet et le British Medical Journal, les deux principales publications médicales générales de l'époque, pour explorer comment la catégorie du genre parmi celles de la classe et de la race est complexe et participe a créer une identité professionnelle. Spécifiquement, cet article dévoile comment les hommes accoucheurs ont utilisé un langage genré pour l'aider a se créer une identité tout comme les sages-femmes et les autres intervenants rivaux afin de légitimer leur propre identité professionnelle et leur pratique au détriment de leurs concurrents.

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