Sisterhood's ordeals: shared interests and divided loyalties in finnish wartime nursing

• Autores: Lea Henriksson
• Localización: Dynamis: Acta hispanica ad medicinae scientiarumque historiam illustrandam, ISSN 0211-9536, Nº. 19, 1999, págs. 305-328
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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 leve1 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.