An Officer and a Lady - Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War

Klappentext Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender! war! and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as "officers and ladies." Zusammenfassung Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as “officers and ladies.”

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Toman
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9780774814478
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1447-8
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H; Studies in Canadian Military History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous