Katrin Schultheiss is Assistant Professor of History and of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Schultheiss's study is positioned at the point of intersection of a number of critical conflicts in this formative period of the Third Republic. The book is essentially a political study of nursing. The social history of nurses, their daily work, living conditions, ages, marital status, and earnings makes an appearance, but is not the focus. The focus is the debate over, and within, nursing, how this debate interacted with the political forces, and its results upon hospital nursing and nursing education but also in forging a feminine version of citizenship. It is very well written.

• Introduction 1. Hospital Nursing in Paris 2. The Nursing Sisters of Lyons 3. The Gardes-malades of Bordeaux 4. Class, Gender, and Professional Identity 5. The Nursing Profession in World War I 6. Nursing in Postwar France Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index

Katrin Schultheiss is Assistant Professor of History and of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Schultheiss's study is positioned at the point of intersection of a number of critical conflicts in this formative period of the Third Republic. The book is essentially a political study of nursing. The social history of nurses, their daily work, living conditions, ages, marital status, and earnings makes an appearance, but is not the focus. The focus is the debate over, and within, nursing, how this debate interacted with the political forces, and its results upon hospital nursing and nursing education but also in forging a feminine version of citizenship. It is very well written.

• Introduction 1. Hospital Nursing in Paris 2. The Nursing Sisters of Lyons 3. The Gardes-malades of Bordeaux 4. Class, Gender, and Professional Identity 5. The Nursing Profession in World War I 6. Nursing in Postwar France Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index

Katrin Schultheiss is Assistant Professor of History and of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Schultheiss's study is positioned at the point of intersection of a number of critical conflicts in this formative period of the Third Republic. The book is essentially a political study of nursing. The social history of nurses, their daily work, living conditions, ages, marital status, and earnings makes an appearance, but is not the focus. The focus is the debate over, and within, nursing, how this debate interacted with the political forces, and its results upon hospital nursing and nursing education but also in forging a feminine version of citizenship. It is very well written.

• Introduction 1. Hospital Nursing in Paris 2. The Nursing Sisters of Lyons 3. The Gardes-malades of Bordeaux 4. Class, Gender, and Professional Identity 5. The Nursing Profession in World War I 6. Nursing in Postwar France Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index