"Ready, aye ready" : enlisting nurses -- Incorporating nurses into the military -- Shaping nursing sisters as "officers" and "ladies" -- Legitimating military nursing work -- "The strain of peace" : community and social memory
Summary
"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. 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.""--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index
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