Abstract
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.
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.
| Original language | Danish |
|---|---|
| Journal | Kulturstudier |
| Volume | 2023 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 145-167 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISSN | 1904-5352 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2023 |