Cirrus@Austlit

'Australian representations of women and war are scarce, and are not well known or widely recognisable. When representations are available - like those of Australian nurses - they have not attained the same status accorded the male soldier, and they can be viewed as apart from the soldier/hero tradition. It is from these gaps and separations that this article has emerged. It is important to acknowledge and identify these absences in order that they can be explored opening the possibility of redress in future work' (Third Paragraph)