This chapter examines the question of gender construction and portrayals of women through an analysis of the Soviet nurse, and in particular it analyses the changing representation of the Soviet nurse. By tracing the Soviet nurse in publications such as Rabotnitsa and Za sanitarnuyu oboronu, the chapter assesses how the depiction of nurses-and by extension women more generally-varied from maternal, to feminine, and/or to militaristic, depending on the social and political context. This analysis of nurse representation argues that it was only during the first and final days of the Soviet Union that the reality of nurses’ position within society, that is, their low social status and ambiguous position, featured in media portrayals of this largely female profession.
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Grant, S. (2017). Nurses in the soviet union: Explorations of gender in state and society. In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union (pp. 249–265). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54905-1_17
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