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'Subversive nurses'
in 'Curing queers'
This chapter describes the nurses' experiences when bending the rules in regard to administering aversion therapy, and the meaning they attached to the rule-bending behaviours. An examination of the testimonies demonstrates that femininities and masculinities were sometimes used by the subversive nurses to avert the suspicion of their engaging in resistive activities. Anxiety seems a reasonable response to Una Drinkwater's and Elizabeth Granger's subversive behaviours. A key driver in the development of university-based nurse education was Colin Fraser Brockington, Professor of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Manchester. Julian Wills's exposure to homosexuals during World War II had a positive effect on his attitude towards the individuals in his care. The mental nurses were deeply suspicious of state registered nurses (SRNs), as senior positions in mental hospitals were often denied to nurses unless they were dual qualified as a SRN and registered mental nurse (RMN).
'Curing queers'
Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74
aversion therapy; British mental hospitals; GLBTIQ; homosexuality; mental health care; mental nurses; nurse therapists; oppression; sexual deviations; subversive behaviours; subversive nurses; suppression; therapeutic optimism; transvestism
Series: Nursing History and Humanities
Note on terminology
Chapter 1: Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939–1967
Chapter 2: Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930–1959
Chapter 3: 'Subordinate nurses'
Chapter 4: 'Subversive nurses'
Chapter 5: Liberation, 1957–1974
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880
David M. Turner
Daniel Blackie
This book sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain's economic growth. If disability has been largely absent from conventional histories of industrialisation, the Industrial Revolution has assumed great significance in disability studies. The book examines the economic and welfare responses to disease, injury and impairment among coal workers. It discusses experiences of disability within the context of social relations and the industrial politics of coalfield communities. The book provides the context for those that follow by providing an overview of the conditions of work in British coalmining between 1780 and 1880. It turns its attention to the principal causes of disablement in the nineteenth-century coal industry and the medical responses to them. The book then extends the discussion of responses to disability by examining the welfare provisions for miners with long-term restrictive health conditions. It also examines how miners and their families negotiated a 'mixed economy' of welfare, comprising family and community support, the Poor Law, and voluntary self-help as well as employer paternalism. The book shifts attention away from medicine and welfare towards the ways in which disability affected social relations within coalfield communities. Finally, it explores the place of disability in industrial politics and how fluctuating industrial relations affected the experiences of disabled people in the coalfields.
The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914– 18
Living with the enemy in First World War France
James E. Connolly
This study considers the ways in which locals of the occupied Nord responded to and understood their situation across four years of German domination, focusing in particular on key behaviours adopted by locals, and the way in which such conduct was perceived. Behaviours examined include forms of complicity, misconduct, disunity, criminality, and resistance. This local case study calls into question overly-patriotic readings of this experience, and suggests a new conceptual vocabulary to help understand certain civilian behaviours under military occupation.
Drawing on extensive primary documentation – from diaries and letters to posters and police reports – this book proposes that a dominant 'occupied culture' existed among locals. This was a moral-patriotic framework, born of both pre-war socio-cultural norms and daily interaction with the enemy, that guided conduct and was especially concerned with what was considered acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Those who breached the limits of this occupied culture faced criticism and sometimes punishment. This study attempts to disentangle perceptions and reality, but also argues that the clear beliefs and expectations of the occupied French comprise a fascinating subject of study in their own right. They provide an insight into national and local identity, and especially the way in which locals understood their role within the wider conflict.
This book will be useful to undergraduates, post-graduates and academics interested in an understudied aspect of the history of modern France, the First World War, and military occupations.