title: To be one of the boys: aftershocks of the World War I nursing experience.
abstract: The mass deployment of nurses during World War I removed them from their structured professional culture and thrust them into the unfamiliar world of men at war. Analysis of personal accounts indicates that for some nurses, this event increased awareness of conflicts between autonomous professional practice and the "good woman" image. It led them to examine the disparity between healing and participation in war and to experience sex-based inequality in the face of equal danger. The emerging dialectic provoked personal and professional change. The value of confrontation with differentness as an impetus to growth is examined.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Syracuse University, New York.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Beeber
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008888:Military Nursing; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare