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Officer, nurse, woman : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War / Kara Dixon Vuic.
Author
Vuic, Kara Dixon, 1977-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
©2010
Description
xii, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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DS559.44 .V85 2010
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Subject(s)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Medical care
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United States
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Military nursing
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Military nursing
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Vietnam
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History
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20th century
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Women
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United States
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Women and war
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Gender identity
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Women
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United States Army Nurse Corps
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History
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20th century
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Series
War, society, culture
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War/society/culture
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780801893919 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
0801893917 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2009012215
OCLC
317118311
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Officer, nurse, woman [electronic resource] : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War / Kara Dixon Vuic.
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