Nursing leaders and feminist issues: Susan McGahey and the New South Wales experience, 1890-1910.
Susal Bell McGahey was arguably the most prominent nurse leader and reformer in New South Wales, Australia between the years 1890 and 1910. While McGahey was influenced in her ideas about ways of organising and reforming nursing by international nurse leaders, especially Ethel Bedford Fenwick and Lavinia Dock, she never shared their commitment to feminist issues. This paper considers why this was the case.
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University of Sydney, Australia.
D001315:Australia; D019513:Feminism; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006808:Humanism / Q000266:history*; D009726:Nurses; D017009:Professional Autonomy