The Nurse, the Veteran, and the Female Scientist: Dependency and Separation by Kirsten Twelbeck

“…By reading Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches, Silas Weir Mitchell’s “The Case of George Dedlow,” Alonzo F. Hill’s John Smith’s Funny Adventures on a Crutch, and Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora as contributions to and critical interventions into official veteran memorial culture, this article sheds light on the gendered dimension of the Reconstruction adaptation and negotiation process, and explains why the concept of the female nurse played a crucial role in this development.…”
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