TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Jane
TI  - Negotiating nursing: British army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War 
T2  - Nursing history and humanities
SN  - 9781526119063
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Military nursing
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - sears
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Army
KW  - Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service/R
N1  - Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Nursing work and nurses' space in the Second World War: a gendered construction; Salvaging soldiers, comforting men; Challenging nursing spaces; Nursing presence; Negotiating the boundaries of nursing practice; Reasserting work, space and gender boundaries at the end of the Second World War; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses' work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses' position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant
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