“At the front of the sexes”: the march of Brazilian nurses to gain military service

Authors

  • Alexandre Barbosa de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery
  • Tânia Cristina Franco Santos Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery
  • Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Angélica Ribeiro Pinto de Oliveira
  • Maria Angélica de Almeida Peres Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery
  • Mariane Bonfante Cesario Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v15i3.17446

Keywords:

Nursing, History of Nursing, Military Nursing

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The objective of this historical-social study was to analyze the initiatives of officially incorporating Brazilian nurses in the military field during the first half of the 20th century, and discuss on the implications of incorporating Brazilian nurses in Military Service during World War II. The primary sources were written and iconographic documents. Data were classified, contextualized and analyzed by the historical method and treated under the light of the Social World Theory by Pierre Bourdieu and History of Women by Michelle Perrot. Results showed that the initiatives to make an official incorporation of Brazilian nurses in militarized institutions in Brazil were defined by the symbolic effects of masculine domination, which dictated the limits and possibilities of those nurses in occupying positions of power and prominence in the Brazilian Army at the time. It was a history of battles that (re)defined sexual division of labor in the military field.

Descriptors: Nursing; History of Nursing; Military Nursing.

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Author Biographies

Alexandre Barbosa de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery

Enfermeiro, Doutor em Enfermagem. Professor Adjunto da Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery (EEAN) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: alexbaroli@yahoo.com.br.

Tânia Cristina Franco Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery

Enfermeiro, Doutor em Enfermagem. Professora Associada da EEAN/UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: taniacristinafsc@terra.com.br.

Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Enfermeiro, Doutor em Enfermagem. Professora Associada III do Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. E-mail: padilha@nfr.ufsc.br.

Angélica Ribeiro Pinto de Oliveira

Enfermeira. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: marianecesariotr@hotmail.com.

Maria Angélica de Almeida Peres, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery

Enfermeira, Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora Adjunda da EEAN/UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: angelica.ufrj@uol.com.br.

Mariane Bonfante Cesario, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery

Enfermeiro. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enferamgem da EEAN/UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: marianecesariotr@hotmail.com.

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Published

2013-09-30

How to Cite

1.
Oliveira AB de, Santos TCF, Padilha MIC de S, Oliveira ARP de, Peres MA de A, Cesario MB. “At the front of the sexes”: the march of Brazilian nurses to gain military service. Rev. Eletr. Enferm. [Internet]. 2013 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Jul. 2];15(3):636-45. Available from: https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/17446

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Original Article