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 the
frontline. Using personal testimony the book maps the developments
in nurses' work as they created a legitimate space for themselves
in war zones and established their position as the expert at the
bedside. Yet, despite the acknowledgement of nurses' vital role in
the medical service, their position was gendered. As the women of
Britain were returned to the home post-war, it was the military
nurses' womanhood that stymied their considerable skills from being
transferred to the new welfare state. -- .
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