Nursing Students’ Scrapbooks 1938-1968
Visualizing Female Figures on the Border between a Female-Dominated Profession and Aarhus University
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ks.v2023i1.138001Nøgleord:
higher learning for women, nursing students, student life, female figures, scrapbooksResumé
When higher education for nurses was established at Aarhus University in 1938, a tradition started of designing scrapbooks where students could express themselves, their attitudes, and interests. The scrapbooks function as visual documentation of women at the border between profession and university. In this article, selected illustrations from the nursing students’ scrapbooks are analysed based on a diffractive methodological approach. The analysis takes shape through Sara Ahmed’s figure
of the willful subject and argues that the nursing student emerges as a modern and strong-willed woman at a time when it was assumed that nurses willingly sacrificed themselves to serve a higher calling.
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Other empirical material:
Interview with Inge 20.06.2022 / confirmation email 07.09.2022
Meeting with Susanne Malchau Dietz 15.06.2022 / Email correspondence 08.08.2022
Unpublished sources:
Dietz, Susanne Malchau 2022: Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Museum. Tidslinje – Dansk Sygepleje 1757 – 2021.
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