Awards

• Winner of Lavinia L. Dock Award awarded by American Association for the History of Nursing 2013 (United States)

Overview

Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping of these women's stories from their childhoods through to their roles as professionals and community activists. reveals the extraordinary complexity of Black women's history.

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9781442609952

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Reviews

'In this well researched and well-written monograph, Karen Flynn does an excellent job of delineating the ways in which identities of Caribbean and Canadian born Black women have been shaped throughout their life time... Flynn's work should serve as a spring board for further scholarship into the professional and private lives of women of African descent in the diaspora.'--Claudine Bonner Histoire sociale/Social History vol 45:90:2012

'In this well researched and well-written monograph, Karen Flynn does an excellent job of delineating the ways in which identities of Caribbean and Canadian born Black women have been shaped throughout their life time... Flynn's work should serve as a spring board for further scholarship into the professional and private lives of women of African descent in the diaspora.' -- Claudine Bonner Histoire sociale/Social History vol 45:90:2012

Author Information

Karen Flynn is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.

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