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 -- Workers and wives
Summary
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2015)