Projects
The research is focused on biographies, careers and networks of Bulgarian and American nurses as agents of biopolitics in the process of their collaboration during the establishment of the modern nursing education in Bulgaria. The main research base is the intensive correspondence between leading American and Bulgarian nurses in the 20-es - 30-es, as well as their publications. In the way of such "sisterhoods" women exchanged their experiences and reflections on their professional and personal everyday life. The main goal of this project is to contribute to the history of biopolitics in its perspective as history of women as social reformers and agents of biopolitics, as well as to the importance of their "imagined societies" and networks.
The research is focused on the biographies, careers and networks of Bulgarian and American nurses as agents of biopolitics in the process of their collaboration during the establishment of the modern nursing education in Bulgaria. The main research base is the intensive correspondence between leading American and Bulgarian nurses in the 20-es - 30-es preserved in the Nursing School Archive (in the Central State Archive Sofia) as well as their publications (articles, books, reports etc.) Another research source is the correspondence between Nursing School Heads and Bulgarian Nurses who started their practice at that time. Regular correspondence between nurses was a common practice in the first half of the 20th century. Those kind of documentation is an inseparable part of a female biography. Female correspondence was very important in women history. For nurses it was also an important tool to communicate professional information, to establish professional norms and values, to share female images and models. The main goal of this project is to contribute to the history of biopolitics in its perspective as history of women as social reformers and agents of biopolitics as well as to the importance of their "imagined societies" and networks.