title: [A gender reading about the (re)inauguration of a female practice: from England to Brazil].
abstract: It is a gender reading of Florence Nightingale's main work, "Notes on Nursing: what is and what isn't", a book which brings together the principles and essential elements of modern nursing, professionalized in England in the second half of the XIX century and the way the profession was constituted in Brazil, as explicited in the work of Glete de Alcantara: "Modern nursing as a professional category: obstacles to its expansion in Brazilian society", the first nursing dissertation produced in the country, in 1963. It verified that in both situations the specificities of the nursing profession intermixes with that of the female working world.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: Rosa Maria Serpa
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: da Fonseca
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012737:Sex Factors