{"product_id":"an-officer-and-a-lady-9780774814485","title":"An Officer and a Lady","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. They served in all three armed force branches and all the major theatres of war, yet nursing as a form of war work has long been under-explored. \u003cem\u003eAn Officer and a Lady\u003c\/em\u003e fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as officers and ladies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Toman’s study, we have the first critical historical analysis of Second World War nursing sisters. Toman’s purpose is to ‘shift the analysis away from stereotypical portrayals as angels and heroines’, to examine the nursing sisters in the ‘masculine military domain’ of Canadian wartime hospitals overseas. […] Toman fully achieves her goal, providing an interplay between ‘gender, war, and medical technology’, drawing on a wide range of oral and official evidence, including twenty-five personal interviews with veteran nursing sisters, and another thirty gleaned from archival collections across Canada, in addition to other personal and published sources. […] The photographs distributed throughout give faces to the voices, and illustrate both the medical and human drama of the war. -- Linda J. Quiney, University of British Columbia * International History Review, Vol.XXXI, No.1 *\u003cbr\u003eToman’s work is a timely addition to the social history of the military. … By incorporating nursing sisters into the narrative of military history, Toman has “balanced out traditional accounts of war as political and military strategies.” -- Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University * H-Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 “Ready, Aye Ready”: Enlisting Nurses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Incorporating Nurses into the Military\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Shaping Nursing Sisters as “Officers” and “Ladies”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Legitimating Military Nursing Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 “The Strain of Peace”: Community and Social Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456002556247,"sku":"9780774814485","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774814485.jpg?v=1755033396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-officer-and-a-lady-9780774814485","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}