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• Winner of <DIV>Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing, 2017.</DIV> 2017

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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

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 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 This book links nurses' struggles to broader drives for racial and gender justice. Highly recommended. --Choice 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

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 This book links nurses' struggles to broader drives for racial and gender justice. Highly recommended. --Choice 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 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

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 Nursing Civil Rights illuminates thoroughly the issues of racial and gender inclusion in the US military. --The Journal of African American History This book links nurses' struggles to broader drives for racial and gender justice. Highly recommended. --Choice 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 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 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

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Charissa J. Threat is an assistant professor of history at Spelman College.

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