Officer, nurse, woman
Kara Dixon Vuic · 2010
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Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Series
- War, society, culture
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 271
- ISBN
- 9780801893919
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