Nurses - and wives and mothers: Women and the Latter-day Saints Training School's class of 1919

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  D'Antonio, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

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EID: 67650508576     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2007.0054     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Susan Reverby, Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987);
2. Darlene Clark Hine, Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989);
3. and Barbara Melosh, "The Physician's Hand": Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982).
4. For a review of this literature, see Patricia D'Antonio, "Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73, no. 2 (1999): 268-90. The most salient argument suggests that nurses' struggles to achieve power in their work and acknowledgment on their own terms has remained problematic because, although united by gender, they remain fractured by class and race.
5. D'Antonio, "Revisiting and Rewriting."
6. For more current analyses, see John Mihelich and Debbie Storrs, "Higher Education and the Negotiated Process of Hegemony: The Embedded Resistance among Mormon Women," Gender and Society 17, no. 3 (2003): 404-22;
7. Peggy Fletcher Stack, "Mormonism and Feminism?" Wilson Quarterly 15, no. 2 (1991): 30-32;
8. Laurence Iannaccone and Carrie Miles, "Dealing with Social Change: The Mormon Church's Response to Changes in Women's Roles," Social Forces 68, no. 4 (1990): 1231-51.
9. For an excellent historiographic review, see Eileen Boris and S. J. Kleinberg, "Mothers and Other Workers: (Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State," Journal of Women's History 15, no. 3 (2003): 90-117.
10. For women's care work at home, see Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Knopf, 1990);
11. and Emily Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
12. See, for example, Judy Giles, "A Home of One's Own: Women and Domesticity in England, 1918-1950," Women's Studies International Forum 16, no. 3 (1993): 239-53;
13. and Sharon Harley, "For the Good of Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community, 1880-1930," Signs 15, no. 2 (1990): 336-49.
14. Alice Kessler-Harris, "Gender Ideology in Historical Reconstruction: A Case Study from the 1930s," Gender and History 1, no. 1 (1989): 31-39.
15. Candace West and Sarah Fenstermaker, "Doing Difference," Gender and Society 9, no. 1 (1995): 8-37.
16. Claudia Lauper Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman, Mormons in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 67.
17. Thomas Alexander, Utah: The Right Place, 2nd rev. ed. (Salt Lake City: Gibbs, Smith Publishers, 2003), 154-75.
18. Thomas Alexander, Mormonism in Transition: A History of Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 14.
19. See Vella Neil Evan, "Mormon Women and the Right to Work," Dialogue: The Journal of Mormon Thought 23, no. 4 (1990): 46-61.
20. The quotation is from Vella Neil Evan, "The Girl Who Earns Money," Young Woman's Journal 16, no. 10 (1905): 490.
21. See also Susa Young Gates, "Timely Topics: The Lure of Gold," Young Woman's Journal 19, no. 5 (1908): 206-9.
22. Lester E. Bush, Health and Medicine among the Latter-day Saints (New York: Crossroad, 1993), 88.
23. and Alexander, Mormons and Gentiles: A History of Salt Lake City (Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing, 1984), 2-13.
24. Jill Mulvey Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992);
25. Bush, Health and Healing, 94-96, reports that most of the women educated in eastern medical schools were the wives or children of prominent LDS Church leaders, eager for more education and an expanded sphere of usefulness.
26. The Salt Lake Sanitarian 1, no. 1 (1888): 27.
27. The Salt Lake Sanitarian 2, no. 8 (1889): 49.
28. See also Elaine Shaw Sorensen, "'For Zion's Sake': The Emergence of Mormon Nursing," Nursing History Review 6 (1998): 51-70.
29. See Sorenson, "Mormon Nursing," 61.
30. Charles Rosenberg, Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (New York: Basic Books, 1987), 236.
31. See Reverby, Ordered to Care, 77-94, for the best discussion of this crisis.
32. and Anne Summers, Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988).
33. Kathryn McPherson, Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
34. See Burton Bledstein and Robert D. Johnson, eds., The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class (New York and London: Routledge, 2001).
35. "History of the LDS Hospital School of Nursing, 1905-1955," 40.
36. Ruth Partridge, Adventure with a Lamp: The Story of a Nurse (New York: Dutton, 1939).
37. See, for example, Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1949 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986);
38. Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994);
39. Christine Bose, Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001);
40. and Joanne Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).