Primarily from 1955 to 1975, the Vietnam War not only changed the history of the army but it also changed the history of gender roles. For the longest time, woman did not have the same freedoms as men and were held back from reaching their full potential. However, after World War II, the roles of woman began to change. From historical knowledge, I know that these women increasingly began to attend college, enter new professions, and fought to have more opportunities in society. In Kara Dixon Vuic’s novel, Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War, she vividly depicts personal accounts of army nurses in the war and how their lives in America changed forever. In this novel, these nurses finally get to tell their own captivating
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According to Vuic’s website page, the three awards she received were the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing, the American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award in History and Public Policy, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. Based on these remarkable awards, Vuic was obviously praised and respected for her highly acclaimed novel. Currently, a more recent novel by Vuic that is under contract with Harvard University Press is The Girls Next Door: American Women and Military Entertainment. Although this novel is not fully published, a simple summary reveals that “this book traces the evolution of wartime gender ideologies and connects women’s work for the military to their changing place in the nation” (Kara Dixon, …show more content…
Thompson declares that “while Vuic’s study of the Army Nurse Corps highlights the limited extent to which women could enter the male dominated world of the military, her work ultimately grants agency to the many women who served in Vietnam”( Paragraph 1). Also, Thompson simplifies that “Vuic shows that the Army was rather progressive in granting women nurses officer status in a time when calls for gender reform were getting louder” and that her “work paves the way for future works to expand on the inclusion of women in both the military and the Vietnam War”(Paragraph 4). Currently, Robert Thompson is a “Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. history at the University of Southern Mississippi” and his “interests include modern American diplomacy and political-military relations. America’s interaction with the Pacific world, especially during the Vietnam War” (Thompson, Web). According to his online website, he has won numerous awards such as the most recent 2014 Travel Grant for the Society for Military History 81st Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Also, in 2013, he wrote short publication chapters called “Arriving in Vietnam”, “World of Hurt”, and “Freedom Bird” in Andrew Wiest, Vietnam: A View From the Front Lines. With this background information, Thompson is a certified historian and his credentials allow him to review this type of
According to Vuic’s website page, the three awards she received were the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing, the American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award in History and Public Policy, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. Based on these remarkable awards, Vuic was obviously praised and respected for her highly acclaimed novel. Currently, a more recent novel by Vuic that is under contract with Harvard University Press is The Girls Next Door: American Women and Military Entertainment. Although this novel is not fully published, a simple summary reveals that “this book traces the evolution of wartime gender ideologies and connects women’s work for the military to their changing place in the nation” (Kara Dixon, …show more content…
Thompson declares that “while Vuic’s study of the Army Nurse Corps highlights the limited extent to which women could enter the male dominated world of the military, her work ultimately grants agency to the many women who served in Vietnam”( Paragraph 1). Also, Thompson simplifies that “Vuic shows that the Army was rather progressive in granting women nurses officer status in a time when calls for gender reform were getting louder” and that her “work paves the way for future works to expand on the inclusion of women in both the military and the Vietnam War”(Paragraph 4). Currently, Robert Thompson is a “Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. history at the University of Southern Mississippi” and his “interests include modern American diplomacy and political-military relations. America’s interaction with the Pacific world, especially during the Vietnam War” (Thompson, Web). According to his online website, he has won numerous awards such as the most recent 2014 Travel Grant for the Society for Military History 81st Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Also, in 2013, he wrote short publication chapters called “Arriving in Vietnam”, “World of Hurt”, and “Freedom Bird” in Andrew Wiest, Vietnam: A View From the Front Lines. With this background information, Thompson is a certified historian and his credentials allow him to review this type of