Taking Charge

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Begins a series that will sample the whole range of feminist issues, biographies, activities, organizations and theories in the US. The first offering explores the highly supportive role of nursing associations in the suffrage movement from the opening of the first Nightingale-influenced nursing sc

Preface Chapter I From Separate to Active Spheres. Women in the Nineteenth Century; The Modem Nursing Movement; The Woman Suffrage Movement; Chapter II Emancipation Through Organization; The Superintendents' Society and its Impact on the Nursing Profession; The Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada and the Concerns of Women in the Nursing Profession; The Associated Alumnae and the Superintendents' Society Affiliate as the American Federation of Nurses; Associated Alumnae Establish the American Journal of Nursing; The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and the Concerns of Women of Color in the Nursing Profession; National Organization for Public Health Nursing; Professional Organizations Find Their Political Voice; Chapter III The Formative Years: Nursing and Suffrage, 1893-1910; Chapter IV The Expanding Years: Nursing Supports Suffrage, 1911-1920; First Years After the Doldrums; Nurses Support Woman Suffrage; Chapter V Taking Charge; Nursism