Fighting for the right to a career in military nursing
Charissa J. Threat is an assistant professor of history at Spelman College.
Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research Writing,
American Association for the History of Nursing, 2017.
"Particularly strong in the themes of civil rights and gender
equality and adds important information on subjects that have been
traditionally underrepresented in academic literature. Threat has
made a substantial contribution to this important subject and has
started a stimulating discussion."--Susan Malka, author of Daring
to Care: American Nursing and Second Wave Feminism
"This book links nurses’ struggles to broader drives for racial and
gender justice. Highly recommended."--Choice
"Charissa J. Threat accomplishes her purpose of broadening our
thinking about discrimination history beyond race and gender to
economic rights and labor as part of an equal rights agenda. . . .
Threat effectively threads her argument, that although race and
gender were key Civil Rights forces, labor and economics were also
critical in shaping the agenda. . . . She effectively uses nursing,
as should other scholars, to understand broader social and
political issues." --Journal of the History of Medicine
"Charissa J. Threat offers an original way to view the struggles of
professional black women and white men in nursing. . . . This book
is more than a history of two groups struggling for acceptance in
the cultures and politics of professional nursing and the military.
Threat's discussion about the complexities surrounding the concept
of equality allows the reader to consider larger societal issues
about inclusion."--American Historical Review
"By combining narratives of African American women and white men
and analyzing the Army Nurse Corps' policies regarding both race
and gender, Threat links together gender and racial equality to
provide a new framework in which to understand the 1960s civil
rights movement. . . . Threat's arguments make Nursing Civil Rights
an important work in understanding the gender and racial structure
of the Army Nurse Corps in the 1960s and 1970s."--Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society
"A welcome amendment to the history of nursing in the United
States. . . . Threat's examination of nursing's organizational
evolution yields new insights about the racial politics of alliance
and division."--Women's Review of Books
"This book offers new insight into American history, and adds an
important perspective to existing works on nursing history by
Sarnecky, Vuic, and Hine. This excellent book will appeal to
scholars and teachers of medicine and nursing history, military
history, and civil rights and gender."--Bulletin of the History of
Medicine
"A fascinating study of how nurses, black and white, men and women,
fought for economic opportunities within the military."--Pacific
Historical Review
"Nursing Civil Rights illuminates thoroughly the issues of racial
and gender inclusion in the US military." --The Journal of African
American History
"Nursing Civil Rights skillfully links African American and male
nurses’ efforts to integrate the military nursing corps to a
broader history of struggles for racial and sexual equality in the
early- and mid-twentieth century. This book makes a clear case that
social change, wars, and the military are intimately
connected."--Kara Dixon Vuic, author of Officer, Nurse, Woman: The
Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
"Nursing Civil Rights tells the untold story of how the United
States’ Army Nurse Corps, a profoundly conservative institution,
came to represent real racial and gendered diversity--still elusive
in both our society and in other branches of the armed services.
Yet, this well documented and reasoned book does more. It uses the
Army Nurse Corps as an example of the complicated intersections of
race, gender, Cold War politics, and the quest of some women and
men for social justice and equality. Nursing Civil Rights will be
invaluable not only for those who want to understand the
radicalized and gendered structure of our health care institutions,
but also the culture within which we all live and work."--Patricia
D'Antonio, author of American Nursing: A History of Knowledge,
Authority, and the Meaning of Work
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