Intimate Communities - by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes (Paperback)
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- A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
- About the Author: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
- 324 Pages
- History, Asia
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"When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a curious strength. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites' conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country that transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language"--Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites' conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.From the Back Cover
"Nicole Elizabeth Barnes demonstrates remarkable insights into some of the most well-known figures in health care in wartime China--and introduces many previously unknown--providing pointed character analyses while also connecting individual experiences to larger socio-political trends across the tumultuous wartime landscape."--Sonya Grypma, PhD, RN, author of China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community. "Tackling head-on the challenge to show women's agency in the history of public health, Barnes tells a fascinating story about how Chinese women transformed themselves through medicine and thereby helped create an emotional community for the Chinese nation in the midst of a devastating war. Intimate Communities is not only a major contribution to the histories of medicine, gender, emotion, and nationalism, but even more importantly, it opens up exciting horizons by making visible and exploring the surprising entanglements between them all."--Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, author of Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's ModernityAbout the Author
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 324
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Asia
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: China
Format: Paperback
Author: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Language: English
Street Date: October 23, 2018
TCIN: 91540170
UPC: 9780520300460
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-3598
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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