Walking the Line Between Saint and Sinner: Care and Nurse Jackie

TY - JOUR

T1 - Walking the Line Between Saint and Sinner

T2 - Care and Nurse Jackie

AU - Gorton, Kristyn

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PY - 2016/5/9

Y1 - 2016/5/9

N2 - This article considers how the notion of care, whether as an act of kindness or as a moral ethics, is reflected and worked through in the contemporary American television series, Nurse Jackie (2009–2015). Nurse Jackie, a comedy drama set in a fictional Catholic New York City Hospital, explores the ‘line between saint and sinner’, in the life of an emergency room (ER) nurse. This article considers how Jackie’s character negotiates moral boundaries in a way that allows for a reconsideration of both the complexity of care practices in contemporary society and the gendered nature of these practices.

AB - This article considers how the notion of care, whether as an act of kindness or as a moral ethics, is reflected and worked through in the contemporary American television series, Nurse Jackie (2009–2015). Nurse Jackie, a comedy drama set in a fictional Catholic New York City Hospital, explores the ‘line between saint and sinner’, in the life of an emergency room (ER) nurse. This article considers how Jackie’s character negotiates moral boundaries in a way that allows for a reconsideration of both the complexity of care practices in contemporary society and the gendered nature of these practices.

KW - Care

KW - Emotional labour

KW - Having it all

KW - Hospital drama

KW - Nurse Jackie

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018514387&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1749602016645555

DO - 10.1177/1749602016645555

M3 - Article

SN - 1749-6020

VL - 11

SP - 151

EP - 163

JO - Critical Studies in Television

JF - Critical Studies in Television

IS - 2

ER -