„Македонският зов“ на Клара Нойс: пътят на една забележителна жена до международното лидерство в сестринската професия
„The Macedonian Call” of Clara Noyes: the Way of a remarkable woman toward the global leadership in the Nursing Profession

Summary/Abstract: In 1937 the Bulgarian Red Cross Journal informed about the death in Washington of the ‘great worker of the American and Global Nurses’ deed – Miss Clara Noyes, who deserves gratitude and honour because her contribution for the nurses’ deed in Bulgaria’. About 80 years after her death a book about her life was published written by Roger Noyes. The biography is based on archive documents, publications and oral history. Roger Noyes presents the historical background of the Progressive Era and the political and social context of the suffragist’s movement, the racial problems, the rise of the public health sphere and the nurses’ profession as the most spread women’s job at that time. The book about Clara Noyes reveals a lot of interesting questions about the international contacts between the women’s organizations and their agents who supported the establishment of new educational institutions and changed the place of women in the public sphere. This opens a wide field for research of mutual influences, solidarity, power relations and hier-archies. They are important women’s networks of exchange which helped to overcome a lot of difficulties on the Balkans, in other European countries and in the USA.

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