Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Author:   Jerry Palmer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030828776


Pages:   289
Publication Date:   21 October 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

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Author:   Jerry Palmer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9783030828776


ISBN 10:   3030828778
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   21 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction2. Hospitals and Nursing Before the Great War3. Nurses and the Military Medical Services in the Great War4. Women and War Work (1): Debates and Issues5. Women and War Work (2): Nursing6. The Nurse Memoirs (1)7. The Nurse Memoirs (2)8. The Nurse Memoirs (3): Nurse Memoirs in Nazi Germany9. The Rhetorical Strategies of Nurse Memoirs10. After the War: Nursing Reform and Collective Memory11. Conclusion

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Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of seven other books on various aspects of literature, popular culture and the mass media. His Memories from the Frontline (Palgrave 2018) is an analysis of soldiers’ memoirs of the Great War.

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