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An Officer and a Lady : Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Canadian Military History SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774855945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Officer and a LadyDDC classification:
  • 940.54/7571
LOC classification:
  • D807.C2 -- T66 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 "Ready, Aye Ready": Enlisting Nurses -- 2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military -- 3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as "Officers" and "Ladies" -- 4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work -- 5 "The Strain of Peace": Community and Social Memory -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Biographical Profiles of Interviewed Nursing Sisters -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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.".
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 "Ready, Aye Ready": Enlisting Nurses -- 2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military -- 3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as "Officers" and "Ladies" -- 4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work -- 5 "The Strain of Peace": Community and Social Memory -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Biographical Profiles of Interviewed Nursing Sisters -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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.".

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