Author : Kara Dixon Vuic
Release : 2010
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Officer, Nurse, Woman by : Kara Dixon Vuic
Download or read book Officer, Nurse, Woman written by Kara Dixon Vuic. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.