Officer and a Lady

Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War

AvCynthia Toman

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Del i serien Studies in Canadian Military History

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Beskrivning

During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. They served in all three armed force branches and all the major theatres of war, yet nursing as a form of war work has long been under-explored. An Officer and a Lady fills that gap. 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."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-01
Mått:159 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Canadian Military History
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774814485

Utforska kategorier

Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi
Omvårdnad inom Medicin
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

With Toman's study, we have the first critical historical analysis of Second World War nursing sisters. Toman's purpose is to 'shift the analysis away from stereotypical portrayals as angels and heroines', to examine the nursing sisters in the 'masculine military domain' of Canadian wartime hospitals overseas. […] Toman fully achieves her goal, providing an interplay between 'gender, war, and medical technology', drawing on a wide range of oral and official evidence, including twenty-five personal interviews with veteran nursing sisters, and another thirty gleaned from archival collections across Canada, in addition to other personal and published sources. […] The photographs distributed throughout give faces to the voices, and illustrate both the medical and human drama of the war. - Linda J. Quiney, University of British Columbia (International History Review, Vol.XXXI, No.1) Toman's work is a timely addition to the social history of the military. … By incorporating nursing sisters into the narrative of military history, Toman has "balanced out traditional accounts of war as political and military strategies." - Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University (H-Canada)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 "Ready, Aye Ready": Enlisting Nurses2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as "Officers" and "Ladies"4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work5 "The Strain of Peace": Community and Social MemoryConclusionAppendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index