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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cynthia Toman |
ISBN: | 9780774814478 0774814470 |
OCLC Number: | 1292473966 |
Description: | ix, 261 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | "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. |
Series Title: | Studies in Canadian military history |
Other Titles: | Canadian military nursing and the Second World War |
Responsibility: | Cynthia Toman. |
Abstract:
"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.""--Page 4 de la couverture.
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