Chapter 9. Not so Quiet in No-Woman's-Land

Higonnet, Margaret R.

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“…Hence, works that took women and non-combatants as their focus began to appear on library shelves (Tylee 1990;Cooke and Woollacott et al 1993;Ouditt 1994). Writers such as Margaret Higonnet (Higonnet et al 1987;Higonnet 1993Higonnet , 1999Higonnet , 2001Higonnet , 2002 and Angela Smith (2000a, 2000b have been particularly influential in 'restoring' women to their place in the historical record. These authors focused in particular on autobiographical and semifictional works, such as those of Florence Farmborough, Ellen LaMotte and Mary Borden.…”

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The personal writings of First World War nurses: a study of the interplay of authorial intention and scholarly interpretation

Hallett

2007

Nursing Inquiry

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The personal writings of First World War nurses and VADs (volunteers) provide the historian with a range of insights into the war and women's nursing roles within it. This paper offers a number of methodological perspectives on these writings. In particular, it emphasises two elements of engagement with texts that can act as important influences on subsequent historical writings: authorial intention and scholarly interpretation. In considering the interplay of these two elements, the paper emphasises the motivations both of those who produced primary sources and of those who later used them to 'serve' particular historical interpretations. The paper examines letters, diaries and semi-fictional writings, considering the influences of gender, class and professional background on the ways in which their authors wrote. It then briefly considers the uses to which historians have put these original writings. The paper offers insights into the ways in which complex personal writings can be interpreted and concludes that the writings of First World War nurses and volunteers offer a rich and varied set of perspectives on both the war itself and the nature of wartime nursing work.

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The personal writings of First World War nurses: a study of the interplay of authorial intention and scholarly interpretation

Hallett

2007

Nursing Inquiry

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“…As a result of women's unprecedented access to formerly male gendered spaces, female nurse wartime narratives from the American Civil War represent the incursion by women into the previously male-gendered page of the war-text. As Margaret R. Higonnet observes in World War I writing, ‘The woman writer who trespasses onto the territory of war fiction transgresses many taboos,’ including the permeable border between battlefield and home front and the canons of female representational propriety 38. Re-gendering the space of the military hospital and the page of the war narrative required careful professional negotiation by women nurses as well as rhetorical skill for those who published their experiences.…”

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Gendered spaces, gendered pages: Union women in Civil War nurse narratives

Telford

Long

2012

Med Humanities

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This interdisciplinary analysis joins literary and culture studies with history using Daphne Spain's theory of gendered spaces. Specifically, we examine the reconfiguration of the spaces of military medical work and of book publishing that produced popular literary representations of those medical spaces. As a social historian of nursing and a scholar of American literature and culture, we argue that the examination of Civil War narratives by or about Northern female nurses surveys a landscape in which women penetrated the masculine spaces of the military hospital and the literary spaces of the wartime narrative. In so doing, these women transformed these spaces into places acknowledging and even relying upon what had been traditionally considered male domains. Like many historiographical papers written about nurses and the impact of their practice over time, this work is relevant to those practicing nursing today, specifically those issues related to professional authority and professional autonomy.

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“…Los conflictos armados no sólo han definido la historia y la política del continente, sino que también han operado en el ámbito simbólico, condicionando las concepciones de género con mayor eficacia que cualquier otra práctica o institución de las naciones recién fundadas. La guerra actuó como una fuerza conservadora que organizó la sociedad en estructuras binarias que determinaban que mientras los hombres luchaban en el frente de batalla, las mujeres debían permanecer silenciosas y pacíficas en el frente doméstico (Higonnet 1993). En lo que William Acree (2013) ha llamado la "economía simbólica de la guerra," las mujeres participaron en las luchas militares de sus países realizando tareas como la cocina, la costura o la enfermería.…”

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Las guerras latinoamericanas del siglo XIX desde una perspectiva de género

Miseres

2022

Revista Paginas

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Las guerras del siglo XIX en América Latina han perdurado en la memoria colectiva de la región hasta el presente. Los conflictos armados no sólo han definido la historia y la política del continente, sino que también han operado en el ámbito simbólico, condicionando las concepciones de género con mayor eficacia que cualquier otra práctica o institución de las naciones recién fundadas. La guerra actuó como una fuerza conservadora que organizó la sociedad en estructuras binarias que determinaban que mientras los hombres luchaban en el frente de batalla, las mujeres debían permanecer silenciosas y pacíficas en el frente doméstico (Higonnet 1993). En lo que William Acree (2013) ha llamado la “economía simbólica de la guerra,” las mujeres participaron en las luchas militares de sus países realizando tareas como la cocina, la costura o la enfermería. Estas actividades contribuyeron a la guerra y, al mismo tiempo, reforzaron entre los nuevos ciudadanos las nociones sobre la naturaleza doméstica del “sexo débil.”

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Chapter 9. Not so Quiet in No-Woman's-Land

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The personal writings of First World War nurses: a study of the interplay of authorial intention and scholarly interpretation

The personal writings of First World War nurses: a study of the interplay of authorial intention and scholarly interpretation

Gendered spaces, gendered pages: Union women in Civil War nurse narratives

Las guerras latinoamericanas del siglo XIX desde una perspectiva de género

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