Article ID: CBB995742156

White Suits and Kangaroo Kills: Making Men's Careers in American Nursing (2022)

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This article explores nursing as an emerging career path for men in interwar America. As women reached historic concentrations within the profession, it examines how early gradutes of the Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing for Men created a distinct form of gendered professionalism that allowed them to enter an otherwise female-dominated field. Drawing on school records and oral histories, it argues that men's training simultaneously integrated the feminised aspects of caring labour while upholding strict codes of masculinity that also excluded gay men and men of colour. In contrast to the few existing studies of men in traditionally female fields throughout the twentieth century, this case thus more closely resembles histories of women in male-dominated professions, in which participants calibrated their presentations of gender to appease both gender and professional norms.

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Authors & Contributors
Yeonsik Jung
Persson, Alma
Safua Akeli Amaama
Crawley, Alex
Carpenter, Laura M.
Pateau, Alexandre
Concepts
Medicine and gender
Masculinity
Medicine
Men
Medical education and teaching
Medicine and race
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Philadelphia, PA
Samoa
Russia
France
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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