Speak Up, Speak Out
Beyond the Glass Wall: Black Canadian Nurses 1940-1970 by Karen Flynn
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
203 Toldo (Anthony P.) Health Education and Learning Centre
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
4:00—5:30 p.m.
Toldo Health Education Building,Room 203
Free and open to the public
Until the mid-1940s, young Black women who wanted to train as nurses in Canada were prohibited from doing so. The first cohort of Black registered nurses integrated Canadian nursing school beginning in the early 1950s.
Karen Flynn uses oral narratives of Canadian and Caribbean women to examine the experiences of black nurses in Windsor and Chatham hospitals.
Despite entering an occupation that defined itself around the Victorian ideal of “true womanhood,” an archetype that excluded Black women, these nurses were able to negotiate and secure a place in the profession.
Their capacity to cope with their contradictory positions as black nurses was forged in childhood, then, shaped and reshaped by professional training and their roles as wives, mothers, single women, and community activists.
Sponsored by:
Department of History, University of Windsor
Women’s Studies, University of Windsor
Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor
Canada Research Chair in History of International Health, University of Windsor
Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital
Karen Flynn is assistant professor in Women and Gender Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Flynn received her PhD in Women's Studies from York University, and her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in History from the University of Windsor.
Her talk is based on her newly published book, Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora.
For more information, visit www.uwindsor.ca/womens
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