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Officer, nurse, woman : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War /
"This book is Kara Dixon Vuic's compelling look at the experiences of army nurses in the Vietnam War. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
Baltimore : 2010. |
| Colección: | War, society, culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: " Lady, you're in the army now"
- "The bright adventure of army nursing": meeting nursing demands for the Vietnam war
- "An officer and a gentleman": gender and a changing army
- "A wonderful, horrible experience" : nursing education and practice
- "Helmets and hair curlers" : gener and wartime nursing
- "I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": wives, mothers, and pregnant nurses in the army
- "You mean we get women over here?" : gender and sexuality in the war zone
- "Not all women wore love beads in the sixties" : postwar depictions of vietnam war nurses
- Conclusion: officers, nurses, and women.