Service with Fighting Men
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ISBN13: 9780217989350
Paperback|9780217989350
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter XXXVI WOMEN'S WORK The dominant part played by women in the initiation of modern efforts to mitigate the hardships of soldiers was a clear augury that, in such a struggle as the World War, women would not be content with Hooverizing and knitting. That the first development from the impulse given by Florence Nightingale should have employed primarily the unique gifts of women for nursing the sick and wounded, was in the natural order of events. But her vision had included also the well, and when welfare work for all began to be conceived as the extension of home influences and comforts into military camps, the indispensability of women, as well as their resolution to participate, might have been foreseen as certainties. It was only the fact that the Y M C A, to which welfare work was entrusted, was specifically a men's organization, that obscured for a little while the large and important function which could be best performed by women. When individual women began to seek admission into the ranks of welfare workers, they found advocates able to persuade those who feared embarrassment and difficulty to try the experiment. The result was a demonstration that a well-rounded welfare program requires women, not as substitutes for men, but as cooperators in a work for which neither sex is sufficient by itself. Performing a wide variety of practical service, they imbued it all with a comradeship in which the soldiers found a deeper satisfaction than in all the creature comforts they received. That this comradeship exerted an effective influence, not only upon the conduct of the men, but on their character and soldier spirit, needs no discussion.1 1 Readers who would enjoy detailed information on Y women workers will find interesting accounts in the following books: A Red Tr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217989350 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217989357 |
| Weight | 2.01 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.39 In |
| List Price | $35.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 628 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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