OFFICER AND A LADY - Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War

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."

List of contents

Introduction
1 "Ready, Aye Ready": Enlisting Nurses
2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military
3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as "Officers" and "Ladies"
4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work
5 "The Strain of Peace": Community and Social Memory
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

About the author

Cynthia Toman is an assistant professor of nursing and Associate Director of the Associated Medical Services Nursing History Research Unit at the University of Ottawa.

Summary

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2007
• EAN: 9780774814485
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1448-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H; Studies in Canadian Military History Series; Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous