Pretty and powerless: Nurses in advertisements, 1930-1950

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 229-236

  Lusk, Brigid ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisements; Image of nursing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSING; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ADVERTISING; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; NURSING; PERIODICALS; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034203631     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-240X(200006)23:3<229::AID-NUR7>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Aber, C.S., & Hawkins, J.W. (1992). Portrayal of nurses in advertisements in medical and nursing journals. Image, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2, 289-293.
2. Baker J.A., & Goggin, N.L. (1994). Portrayals of older adults in Modern Maturity advertisements. Educational Gerontology, 20, 139-145.
3. Belknap, P., & Leonard, W.M., II. (1991). A conceptual replication and extension of Erving Goffman's study of gender advertisements. Sex Roles, 25, 3-118.
4. Bretl, D.J., & Cantor, J. (1988). Portrayal of men and women in U.S. television commercials. Sex Roles, 18, 595-608.
5. Burgess, M.A. (1928). Nurses, patients, and pocketbooks. New York: Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools.
6. Cannings, K., & Lazonick, W. (1975). The development of the nursing labor force in the United States: A basic analysis. International Journal of Health Services, 5, 185-216.
7. Chafetz, J.S., Lorence, J., & Larosa, C. (1993). Gender depictions of the professionally employed. Sociological Perspectives, 36 (1), 63-82.
8. Chaney, J.A., & Folk, P. (1993). A profession in caricature. Nursing History Review, 1, 181-202.
9. Dietz, L. D. (1954). Professional adjustments- 1 (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: Davis.
10. Donohue, M.P. (1991). Why nursing history? Journal of Professional Nursing, 7, 77.
11. Furnham, A., & Bitar, N. (1993). The stereotyped portrayal of men and women in British television advertisements. Sex Roles, 29, 297-310.
12. Goffman, E. (1979). Gender advertisements. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
13. Hampton, I.A. (1893). Nursing: Its principles and practice. Philadelphia: Saunders.
14. Hawkins J.W., & Aber, C.S. (1993). Women in advertisements in medical journals. Sex Roles, 28, 233-242.
15. Kalisch, P.A., & Kalisch, B.J. (1982a). Image of the nurse in motion pictures. American Journal of Nursing, 82, 605-611.
16. Kalisch, P.A., & Kalisch, B.J. (1982b). Image of nurses in novels. American Journal of Nursing, 82, 1220-1224.
17. Kalisch, P.A., & Kalisch, B.J. (1987). The changing image of the nurse. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley.
18. Kalisch, P.A., Kalisch, B.J., & Clinton, J. (1982). The world of nursing on prime time television, 1950 to 1980. Nursing Research, 31, 358-363.
19. Kalisch, B.J., Kalisch, P.A., & McHugh, M.L. (1982). The nurse as a sex object in motion pictures, 1930-1980. Research in Nursing & Health, 5, 147-154.
20. Krantzler, N.J. (1986). Media images of physicians and nurses in the United States. Social Science and Medicine, 22, 933-952.
21. Lynaugh, J.E., & Brush, B.L. (1996). American nursing: From hospitals to health systems. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
22. Lynaugh, J.E., & Reverby, S. (1987). Thoughts on the nature of history. Nursing Research, 36, 4, 69.
23. Muff, J. (1990). Myth and image of the female in nursing. Imprint, 37 (3), 96-98.
24. Reverby, S. (1987). Ordered to care. New York: Cambridge University Press.
25. Statistical abstract of the United States, 1933. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1934.
26. Statistical abstract of the United States, 1943. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1944.
27. Statistical abstract of the United States, 1953. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1954.
28. Stewart, I.M. (1940). Nursing education and national defense. The American Journal of Nursing, 40, 1376-1385.
29. Sullivan, G.L., & O'Connor, P.J. (1988). Women's role portrayals in magazine advertising: 1958-1983. Sex Roles, 18, 181-188.
30. Weber, R.P. (1985). Basic content analysis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.