Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Un/becoming Nurse : Good and Bad Realities of Representation as Representation
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'These words, levelled at me by the university lecturer who supervised my final third year placement, stayed with me throughout my five-year career(ing) as a registered nurse in hospitals, aged care, and community settings across South Australia and Victoria. The context of these words was that of her informing me I had failed the placement and she considered me unfit for practice – indeed, unfit for work of any kind. “People like you are what the disability pension was made for,” were the next words that she uttered.'  (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph: …to be a good nurse one must be a good woman… What makes a good woman is the better or higher of their nature: Quietness, Gentleness, Patience, Endurance, Forbearance. (Florence Nightingale in McAllister and Brien 2020: 8) One is not born, but rather becomes, woman. (Simone de Beauvoir 1949 [2010]: 330) “People like you aren’t meant to be nurses.”

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    y separately published work icon TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs vol. 24 no. 2 October 2020 20753485 2020 periodical issue 'Scholarly contributions to the October 2020 edition of TEXT canvas a range of research problems, from doctoral pedagogy to the role of the imagination in the creation of sensory narrative detail, from critical approaches to worldbuilding to the problem of the anti-heroine. Contributing authors also engage a wide range of forms including scriptwriting, prose poetry, realist fiction, sci-fi and fantasy and experimental life writing.' (Editorial introduction) 2020
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