| Series |
War/society/culture
War, society, culture. ^A412767
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| Contents |
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" : gender 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. |
| Abstract |
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 horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009012215 |
| ISBN | 9780801893919 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0801893917 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
