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Vuic offers an important new contribution to how we understand women's participation in the U.S. military after World War II.
(Tanya L. Roth
H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews)
Vuic's book is important reading for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of more than just the Vietnam War or nursing history. Its relevance also encompasses enduring complexities of gender, cultural representations, and collective memory. Highly recommended.
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Choice)
Utilizing a feminist paradigm, Kara Dixon Vuic's evocative and unique dissection of the collective gender experiences of Army Nurse Corps officers in Vietnam and its aftermath breaks new ground in the history of military nursing... I found Officer, Nurse, Woman quite intriguing. I can unreservedly recommend it as a valuable addition to the literature documenting nurse participation in the Vietnam War.
(Mary T. Sarnecky, DNSc, RN
Nursing History Review)
Excellent study... The strength of this book is Vuic's main source: nurses who served in Vietnam... Officer, Nurse,Woman enriches a growing body of literature on second-wave feminism’s broad impact and successfully challenges and complicates the dominant narrative of military history and destabilizes familiar categories—especially our notions about women and war.
(Susan Gelfand Malka
Journal of American History)
A well researched, well written account that will be used by professors and students who wish to understand better the complexity of gendered military service.
(D'Ann Campbell
Journal of Military History)
Provides an important foundation for understanding how military women reflect social and cultural gender roles, how institutions respond to and influence gender norms, and how the response shapes and challenges our understanding of citizenship and nation... Vuic's book will be important for scholars of the time period as well as those interested in gender, women's work, nursing history, and the military.
(Julie Fairman
Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
The best one volume treatment available that integrates the personal experiences of nurses with a nuanced understanding of social, political, military, gender, and women’s history alongside feminist theory.
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Minerva: Women and War)
This is a wonderful book, chock full of oral history and riveting personal stories. It makes a meaningful contribution to Vietnam War and twentieth-century gender historiography.
(Penelope Adams Moon
Historian)
Vuic's Officer, Nurse, Woman is an important text for those interested in the history of nursing, the history of military medicine, gender studies, military history, oral history, and studies of women's work and serves as a superb example of the usefulness of oral histories in historical analysis.
(David J. Caruso
Oral History Review)
A very interesting social history that deserves to be wide read.
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Solid, engaging, insightful scholarship. To see the effective mixing of gender history and social history with military history is refreshing and welcome. Vuic addresses a deep hole in the scholarship on the Vietnam War.
(William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University)
Officer, Nurse, Woman contributes mightily to the historiography of military nurses, of women in the military, and women in the paid work force after World War II.
(Elizabeth Hillman, University of California Hastings College of the Law)
From the Back Cover
Winner, Lavinia L. Dock Award, American Association for the History of Nursing
A 2010 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year in History and Public Policy
Vivid personal accounts abound in Kara Dixon Vuic’s compelling look at the experiences of army nurses in the Vietnam War. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service.
Officer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible—and divisive—war.
"An important new contribution to how we understand women's participation in the U.S. military after World War II."— H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews
"Important reading for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of more than just the Vietnam War or nursing history. Its relevance also encompasses enduring complexities of gender, cultural representations, and collective memory. Highly recommended."— Choice
"Vuic's evocative and unique dissection of the collective gender experiences of Army Nurse Corps officers in Vietnam and its aftermath breaks new ground in the history of military nursing."— Nursing History Review
"A well researched, well written account that will be used by professors and students who wish to understand better the complexity of gendered military service."— Journal of Military History
"Provides an important foundation for understanding how military women reflect social and cultural gender roles, how institutions respond to and influence gender norms, and how the response shapes and challenges our understanding of citizenship and nation."— Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"The best one volume treatment available that integrates the personal experiences of nurses with a nuanced understanding of social, political, military, gender, and women’s history alongside feminist theory."— Minerva: Women and War
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