Officer Nurse Woman

Author : Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801893917
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Officer, Nurse, Woman written by Kara Dixon Vuic and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. 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.

Author : Charissa J. Threat
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097246
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nursing Civil Rights written by Charissa J. Threat and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sharon Bown
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1775593126
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Woman’s War and Peace written by Sharon Bown and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth M. Norman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213171
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at War written by Elizabeth M. Norman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Author : Kim Heikkila
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873516372
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisterhood of War written by Kim Heikkila and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen Minnesota nurses spent a year caring for the casualties of a divisive war, only to come home and descend into isolated silence. To heal themselves, they banded together as veterans.

Author : Judith Bellafaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army Nurse Corps written by Judith Bellafaire and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Cronk Farrell
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613126379
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pure Grit written by Mary Cronk Farrell and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Farrell chronicles the harrowing story of U.S. Army and Navy nurses based in the Philippines during WWII . . . a memorable portrayal.” —Booklist (starred review) In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years. Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life. The women cared for one another, maintained discipline, and honored their vocation to nurse anyone in need—all 101 coming home alive. The book is illustrated with archival photographs and includes an index, glossary, and timeline. “Farrell doesn’t spare her young readers any grim details . . . She includes the challenges these women faced and the joy they felt on returning home. As awful as history can be, now might be the right time to introduce the next generation to this important period.” —The Washington Post “Young readers who enjoyed Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream will also appreciate this story of courageous women whose story was nearly forgotten.” —School Library Journal

Author : Michael Fleeman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429904321
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Officer's Wife written by Michael Fleeman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** A MAN IN UNIFORM He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. She was a psychologist in Fayetteville, North Carolina. On the surface, Marty and Michelle Theer appeared to be the perfect married couple. But no one knew of the double life Michelle was leading. Tired of spending one too many nights apart from Marty who was often away on his flight missions, Michelle turned to the Internet to meet men and relieve her loneliness. With each encounter, Michelle became more daring in her sexual escapades. But one man stood out among all the rest: former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant John Diamond. A WOMAN IN HEAT The more time Michelle spent with Diamond, the less she wanted to be with her husband. Then on December 17, 2000, Marty was gunned down on a street outside of Michelle's office building. Suspicion first turned to Diamond, and she watched him take the fall for a murder she had masterminded. When authorities went after her, Michelle vanished. For months, federal marshals hunted desperately for Michelle, who had resorted to plastic surgery to avoid the law. In 2002, authorities finally captured her. A CASE THAT SHOCKED THE AMERICAN MILITARY COMMUNITY For three months, a jury would hear graphic testimony delving into the sordid details of Michelle's swinging sex life as the happy veneer of the Theers's marriage was quickly peeled away. But when it came time to decide Michelle Theer's fate, her own shocking actions would finally seal her doom...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2011, Part 1, 111-2 Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bettie J. Morden
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105093565
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 written by Bettie J. Morden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After yearsout of print, this new and redesigned book brings back the best and most complete history of the Women's Army Corps. Loaded with history, tables, charts, statistics, photos, personalities, and many useful appendices (including a history of WAC uniforms), The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 is must reading for anyone who served those years in the Army as well as for those who want a complete history of the modern-day military. Author Bettie Morden served from 1942-1972 and she used her experience and access to people and records to compile the definitive reference work. Col. Morden is a graduate of the WAC Officers' Advanced Course (1962); Command and General Staff College (1964); and the Army Management School (1965). She has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.