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.?
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-250) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.54/7571082
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780774814478 9780774855945
- LCCN
- D807.C2
- LCCN Item number
- T64 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (ix, 261 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00222058 (OCoLC)753322437 (CaOOCEL)422115
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations and Tables 7
- Acknowledgments 9
- Abbreviations 11
- Introduction 14
- 1 “Ready, Aye Ready”: Enlisting Nurses 24
- 2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military 63
- 3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as “Officers” and “Ladies” 103
- 4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work 128
- 5 “The Strain of Peace”: Community and Social Memory 179
- Conclusion 211
- Appendix: Biographical Profiles of Interviewed Nursing Sisters 217
- Notes 227
- Selected Bibliography 251
- Index 262
- A 262
- B 262
- C 263
- D 264
- E 264
- F 265
- G 265
- H 265
- I 266
- J 266
- K 266
- L 266
- M 266
- N 268
- O 269
- P 269
- Q 269
- R 269
- S 270
- T 271
- U 271
- V 271
- W 271
- Y 272