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In Nursing Civil Rights , Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination. | Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Politics of Intimate Care: Gender, Race, and Nursing Work 2. "The Negro Nurse—A Citizen Fighting for Democracy": African Americans and the Army Nurse Corps 3. Nurse or Soldier? White M

Author

Charissa J. Threat

Publisher

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252039201

Subjects

Psychology, History, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24