Telford Jennifer Casavant, Long Thomas Lawrence
School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA.
Med Humanit. 2012 Dec;38(2):97-105. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2012-010195. Epub 2012 Jul 31.
This interdisciplinary analysis joins literary and culture studies with history using Daphne Spain's theory of gendered spaces. Specifically, we examine the reconfiguration of the spaces of military medical work and of book publishing that produced popular literary representations of those medical spaces. As a social historian of nursing and a scholar of American literature and culture, we argue that the examination of Civil War narratives by or about Northern female nurses surveys a landscape in which women penetrated the masculine spaces of the military hospital and the literary spaces of the wartime narrative. In so doing, these women transformed these spaces into places acknowledging and even relying upon what had been traditionally considered male domains. Like many historiographical papers written about nurses and the impact of their practice over time, this work is relevant to those practicing nursing today, specifically those issues related to professional authority and professional autonomy.
这种跨学科分析运用达芙妮·西班牙的性别化空间理论，将文学与文化研究和历史结合起来。具体而言，我们考察军事医疗工作空间和图书出版空间的重新配置，正是这些配置催生了对那些医疗空间的通俗文学呈现。作为一名护理社会史学家以及美国文学与文化学者，我们认为，对北方女性护士所撰写或关于她们的内战叙事进行考察，展现出这样一幅图景：女性渗透进了军事医院的男性空间以及战时叙事的文学空间。通过这样做，这些女性将这些空间转变为认可甚至依赖传统上被视为男性领域的地方。与许多关于护士及其随着时间推移的实践影响的史学论文一样，这项研究对当今从事护理工作的人具有借鉴意义，尤其是那些与专业权威和专业自主权相关的问题。
