Nursing Civil Rights Nursing Civil Rights
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Nursing Civil Rights

Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Politics & Current Affairs
RELEASED
2015
15 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Illinois Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
4.1
MB

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