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Nursing civil rights : gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps / Charissa J. Threat.
LIBRA UH493 .T57 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Threat, Charissa J., 1976- author.
- Series:
- Women in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army Nurse Corps--History.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Nurses--History--20th century.
- United States. Army.
- United States. Army Nurse Corps.
- Military nursing--United States--History--20th century.
- Military nursing.
- African American women--History--20th century.
- African American women.
- Male nurses--United States--History--20th century.
- Male nurses.
- Discrimination in employment--United States--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights.
- Sex role in the work environment--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex role in the work environment.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States.
- Armed Forces--Nurses.
- Military participation--African American.
- Women.
- History.
- Nurses.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination. A fresh look at two intertwined struggles, Nursing Civil Rights broadens and redefines our understandings of the civil rights movement, gender and the women's rights movement, and civil-military relations. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Politics of Intimate Care: Gender, Race, and Nursing Work 10
- 2 "The Negro Nurse-A Citizen Fighting for Democracy": African Americans and the Army Nurse Corps 25
- 3 Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II 53
- 4 An American Challenge: Defense, Democracy, and Civil Rights after World War II 79
- 5 The Quality of a Person: Race and Gender Roles Re-Imagined? 107.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252039201
- 0252039203
- 9780252080777
- 0252080777
- OCLC:
- 893454439
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