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I enjoyed Louisa May Alcott’s piece as it verifies our lecture that nursing was viewed by some as an appropriate wartime occupation for women as an extension of motherhood. Her jobs include sewing bandages, reading to the soldiers, writing letters for them, and just generally seeing to the comforts of the wounded. She even calls these men her big babies, secretly wishing the doctor would be gentler with them and regrets when she is sick that she cannot care for their needs. This was a very optimistic piece, I wonder though if her tone would have changed had she remained longer? Would she have been more overwhelmed and feeling like she was not making much of a difference as time wore on? -- Elyse Lawrence | I enjoyed Louisa May Alcott’s piece as it verifies our lecture that nursing was viewed by some as an appropriate wartime occupation for women as an extension of motherhood. Her jobs include sewing bandages, reading to the soldiers, writing letters for them, and just generally seeing to the comforts of the wounded. She even calls these men her big babies, secretly wishing the doctor would be gentler with them and regrets when she is sick that she cannot care for their needs. This was a very optimistic piece, I wonder though if her tone would have changed had she remained longer? Would she have been more overwhelmed and feeling like she was not making much of a difference as time wore on? -- Elyse Lawrence | ||
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| + | I liked Louisa May Alcott's writing, it was a decent read. She did not write that much but based on what she did write she provided us with incredible insight to what it took to be a nurse in the Civil War. I loved the line "feeling as if I was the son of the house going to war," because becoming a nurse was the closest women would often get to the battles and showed the prestige that Alcott felt went with being a nurse. Once she made it to her post in Washington she described the wounded and sick men as "all were well behaved," as if she had not expected them to be. -Megan Mc | ||
== Mary Livermore, [Northern women on farm during war], 1890 -- Woloch and Major Problems readings. == | == Mary Livermore, [Northern women on farm during war], 1890 -- Woloch and Major Problems readings. == | ||
