The Image of Nurses Expressed by Caps, and Feminism Perspective: What Affected the Changing in UK and USA

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  • Shimada Rika
    School of Nursing, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
  • Ueno Noriko
    School of Nursing, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

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Other Title
  • ナースキャップの表現する看護婦像とフェミニズム
  • －英米におけるナースキャップ廃止議論の背景にあるもの－

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Most nurses in UK and USA no longer wear traditional caps. In Japan, it is common to see them, although their abolition has been the topic of debate over the last 20 years and less nurses have come to wear them. The tendency to reconsider a nurses' caps in Japan has been resulted from some negative findings that wearing caps is impractical, unhygienic, costly, and that authoritative image attached to a cap is apt to prevent maintaining rapport between patient and nurse. However, there seems to have been hardly any arguments toward the abolition from the viewpoint of feminism. The history teaches us that the origin of nurses' cap can be traced to a nuns' veil that symbolized subordination and obedience. Furthermore, a nurses' cap leads us to review nursing as a women's role and a traditionally oppressed female occupation in health care systems. The authors referred to British and American articles to study how a nurse's cap has been related to the image of subservience and reinforced the female gender role in the light of the history of women and nursing.

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  • CRID
    1390001205742262144
  • NII Article ID
    130005143188
  • DOI
    10.15065/jjsnr.20020212007
  • ISSN
    21896100
    21883599
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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