Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps (Women in American History)

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In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American ladies and white men within the U.S. Army.
 
As Threat unearths, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each and every conducted separate integration campaigns to finish the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements within the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. On the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how one of the most ladies who succeeded as agents of change become defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result used to be a struggle that concurrently confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination.

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