This Small Army of Women

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  • This Small Army of Women Book Detail

  • Author : Linda J. Quiney
  • Release Date : 2017-05-01
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 289
  • ISBN 13 : 0774830743
  • File Size : 28,28 MB

This Small Army of Women by Linda J. Quiney PDF Summary

Book Description: With her soft linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the First World War. This Small Army of Women draws on diaries, letters, and interviews to tell the forgotten story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to “do their bit” at home and overseas. Middle-class and well-educated but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain’s nursing deficit and filled gaps in Canada’s domestic nursing ranks. Their dedication and struggle to secure a place at their brothers’ bedsides reveals much about women’s contributions to the war effort, the tensions between amateur and professional nurses, and women’s evolving role outside the home.

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