"American Style Health Care: Helter Skelter Par Excellence"

"Myths and Realities of Apprenticeship in Nursing: Paternalism in Practice"

"Nursing Roots: Impact on Role Change"

"Professionalism and the Law"

"Women and the Political Process: Their Social Influence Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"

Our generation of nurses must question the use of a framework of limitations and boundaries when applied to our physical and professional identity.  Our laws must be re-written with another framework in mind, a framework that defines us as professionals and not just licensed workers who must be employed by agencies repressing our actions and our freedom in giving society the nursing care it needs. ...if nurses are to have any major impact on changing the law and on changing the economic structures in the world of work, our class struggles within nursing must be eliminated.  The lack of unity we hear so much about in nursing is really an outgrowth of the phenomenon of classes constantly struggling and fighting.  We must understand these struggles and these fights more fully.  Knowing about the detrimental purposes they serve can help all of us overcome the conflicts we have about them.  Knowledge alone can help us nurses overcome the brainwashing we have been subjected to by the legal and economic systems paying up poorly and treating us in exchange for our labor.

-presented at the Festival of Life and Learning Program, sponsored by the School of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, February 4, 1977.