Negotiating Nursing: British Army Sisters and Soldiers in the Second World War

by Jane Brooks

Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients 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 from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about women's presence on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526119064
• ISBN13: 9781526119063
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"