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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Vuic, Kara Dixon, 1977-     Subjects     United States. Army Nurse Corps -- History -- 20th century.     Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care -- United States.     Military nursing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Military nursing -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.     Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Women -- United States.     Women and war.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Vuic, Kara Dixon, 1977-       by title:      Officer, nurse, woma...         MARC Display

Officer, nurse, woman : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War / Kara Dixon Vuic. by Vuic, Kara Dixon, 1977- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Subjects United States. Army Nurse Corps -- History -- 20th century.   Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care -- United States.   Military nursing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Military nursing -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.   Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Women -- United States.   Women and war. ISBN:  9780801893919 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0801893917 (hardcover : acid-free paper) Description:  xii, 271 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 959.70437 Vu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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