TY - BOOK ID - 48089477 TI - Negotiating nursing : British army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War PY - 2019 SN - 1526147254 9781526147257 9781526119087 1526119080 9781526119070 1526119072 1526138816 1526119064 9781526119063 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Military nursing KW - Nurses KW - Medical care KW - History KW - Women KW - Great Britain. KW - History. KW - Medicine, Military KW - Nursing KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - QARANC UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48089477 AB - '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 text 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. ER -