"I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": Marriage, motherhood, and pregnancy in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War

Signs

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 997-1022

  Vuic, Kara Dixon ^a  

^a BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34249885307     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513078     Document Type: Article

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