FRANCES WARD

A Working Woman

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In A Working Woman, her second memoir, Ward describes a life-lived insistent on uncensured thought. Born in 1950, she recounts America’s hegemony of male dominance through experiences beginning with 1960s square dancing rather than sports and ending in 21st century command and control tactics used by organizational leaders. She also reflects on her health missions to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide and to impoverished areas in India in 2018. Critical of the oppression she has witnessed within and beyond disciplinary and national borders, she nevertheless believes in the dreams that United States offers. “Even now,” she writes, “there remains a candle in the darkness.”

Biography

Frances Ward, PhD, RN, NP, is Professor Emerita at Temple University. She is also the Founding Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey). Throughout her academic and research career, she maintained a clinical practice serving residents in Newark, Camden, and Philadelphia. Her first memoir, The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner (Rutgers University Press, 2013) explored issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations from the perspective of nurse practitioners and is intended to be their voice. In this new memoir, Ward recounts her lifelong experiences with America’s hegemony of male dominance.

Published: October 11, 2024