Sisterhood's ordeals: shared interests and divided loyalties in Finnish wartime nursing.
The aim of this article is to highlight early Finnish nursing in a special wartime context. Occupational development of nursing is envisioned by addressing at a more general level women's mutual relationships and the opportunities and obstacles of the process of occupational development. The article debates two main issues. Establishing occupational domains was a process of selecting suitable labour force and training women morally, as well. The hierarchical order of nursing is manifested especially in the questions of auxiliary labour and the so-called amateur scare. War was still a time of romanticism with visible military and religious models, but women also struggled for their right to have rights.
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University of Tampere School of Public Health, Finlandia.
D005387:Finland; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009729:Nursing; D014857:Warfare