""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Politics of Intimate Care: Gender, Race, and Nursing Work""; ""2. “The Negro Nurse�A Citizen Fighting for Democracy�: African Americans and the Army Nurse Corps""; ""3. Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II""; ""4. An American Challenge: Defense, Democracy, and Civil Rights after World War II""; ""5. The Quality of a Person: Race and Gender Roles Re-Imagined?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix A. Facts about Negro Nurses and the War""
Appendix B. Male Nurse Population, 1943Appendix C. African American Nurse Population, 1940 -- Appendix D. Male and African American Nurse Population, 1950 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In 'Nursing Civil Rights', Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index
