Nursing civil rights : gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps / Charissa J. Threat

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Notes
NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents
The politics of intimate care : gender, race, and nursing work -- "The Negro nurse: a citizen fighting for democracy" : African Americans and the Army Nurse Corps -- Nurse or soldier? White male nurses and World War II -- An American challenge: defense, democracy, and civil rights after World War II -- The quality of a person: race and gender roles re-imagined? Appendices. Facts about Negro nurses and the war -- Male nurse population, 1943 -- African American nurse population, 1940 -- Male and African American nurse population, 1950
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.
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2015
20th century
Author
Threat, Charissa J. 1976-
Subject
United States Army Nurse Corps History
United States Army Nurses History
Type
Books
History
Physical description
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Place
United States
Title
Gender and race in the Army Nurse Corps
Topic
Military nursing--History
African American women--History
Male nurses--History
Discrimination in employment--History
Civil rights--History
Sex role in the work environment--History
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
World War, 1939-1945--Women
Record ID
siris_sil_1104414
Usage
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