Angels and citizens : British women as military nurses, 1854-1914

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Angels and citizens : British women as military nurses, 1854-1914

Anne Summers

Threshold Press, 2000

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Bibliography: p. 301-314

Includes index

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In this history of British women as military nurses between 1854 and 1914, the author combines a detailed account of the origins and development of the regular Army Nursing Service and its successor, the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nusing Service, with a narrative of the early years of the Red Cross and the experiences and adventures of women volunteers in the international war relief movement. Long before the electoral process gave them the vote, wars offered women many of the social rewards the vote symbolized: valued occupations, badges of honour and distinction, and a recognized position in the machinery of state. Wars represented a combination of citizenship, social legitimation, and personal challenge. Yet, as the author shows in this work, the figure of the war nurse was full of paradoxes: a symbol of motherhood and domesticity, required to play a part on the international stage; a symbol of healing, required to colaborate with a strategy of collective slaughter; a symbol of service and self-abnegation, encouraged to show pluck, initiative and responsibility. This story of the feminization of a formerly male profession and the militarization of the quintessentially civilian sector of society makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the public roles of women in the 20th century. It illuminates not only the failure of the pre-war feminist movement to construct a pacifist platform, but also the wholehearted and fatal mobilization of western Europe for the catastrophe of World War I.

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Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations Introduction Part I Women in a Man's World 1 Before the Nightingales 2 The Crimean Experiment 3 Lady into Nurse: Jane Shaw Stewart and the public service 1859-70 4 Uneasy Truce: Her Majesty's Nursing Sisters 1870-1902 Part IIA New View of War 5 Philanthropy and the Battlefield 1854-78 6 'Comfort after Comfort': Nursing Lobbies and the War Office 1879-83 Part III The Big Show 7 Heroines for the Empire 1883-1902 8 Disasters and Reform: the Anglo-Boer War and after 1899-1906 9 The Birth of the VAD: Nursing Reserve Schemes 1906-14 10 Emancipation or Militarisation? Appendix: The Nursing of Officers A Note on Sources Notes and References Bibliography Index

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