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Sentimental Women Need Not Apply: A History of the American Nurse (DVD) |
Email This Page | | Filmmaker: Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey |
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Price listed includes Public Performance License. |
This documentary about America's largest group of professional women is a comprehensive and compelling exploration of the sometimes fanciful mythology and often hard realities which have characterized the field of nursing since its inception in the mid-19th century. Utilizing contemporary interviews, dramatic readings, film clips, and a wealth of vivid arhival drawings and still photographs, Sentimental Women traces the history of nursing from its military beginnings to the present, when modern technology threatens to displace the compassion that has always been at the heart of the profession. The film examines the exploitative elements -- the racial and sexual discrimination -- with which nursing has had to contend. It also documents the part played by student nurses in cleaning up early American hospitals, nursing's great contribution to public health, and the continuing difficult and essential role of nurses in the military. Alternately impressionistic and analytical, humorous and poignant, Sentimental Women presents a rich, multi-layered portrait of a vocation as exceptional as it is common.
Running time: 60 min., Year released: 2005
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 1-55974-148-1
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up
Other Credits: Florentine Films
A film by Diane Garey & Lawrence R. Hott |
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This title can also be found in: Employment, Feminism, Florentine Films -- films by, History, Medicine & Medical Professionals, Nursing, Science & Scientists, U.S. History, U.S. Military, U.S.A., War, Women's Studies |
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