Nursing & empire : gendered labor and migration from India to the United States / Sujani K. Reddy.

Author/Creator:

Reddy, Sujani K., author.

Other Title:

Nursing and empire

Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Subjects:

Nurses -- India.
Nurses -- United States.
Nurses -- Employment -- United States.
India -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Foreign workers, South Asian -- United States.
Women foreign workers -- United States.

Medical subjects:

Nurses, International -- history -- India.
Nurses, International -- history -- United States.
Nursing -- manpower -- India.
Nursing -- manpower -- United States.
Emigration and Immigration -- history -- India.
Emigration and Immigration -- history -- United States.
History of Nursing -- India.
History of Nursing -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- India.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Women, Working -- history -- India.
Women, Working -- history -- United States.

Contents:

Feminizing the Christian medical mission
Searching for Salome
Reconstructing the imperial nation
Remaking mother India
From Kerala to America
Putting the "foreign" in nurse im/migration
Indian nurses navigate the U.S. division of nursing labor
Immigration and the return of the "Woman Question."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469625072
1469625075
9781469625089

OCLC:

905298052

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