ISBN:
9780198038887
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xii, 213 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Battle Scars : Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War
DDC:
305.3/0973/09034
Schlagwort(e):
Women History 19th century
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Sex role History 19th century
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Sex role ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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United States ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Social aspects
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United States ; Social conditions ; 1865-1918
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United States ; Social conditions ; To 1865
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Women ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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United States Social conditions 1865-1918
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United States Social conditions To 1865
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
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Social aspects
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
Addresses how gender scholarship has changed interpretations of the Civil War. This collection examines the study of masculinity and war, expands understandings of sexuality and politics, and deals with issues of health, treason, religion, domesticity, and slavery as they affected Northern and Southern men and women during the Civil War era
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Colliding and Collaborating: Gender and Civil War Scholarship; 2 Fighting Like Men: Civil War Dilemmas of Abolitionist Manhood; 3 "Oh I Pass Everywhere": Catholic Nuns in the Gulf South during the Civil War; 4 "Public Women" and Sexual Politics during the American Civil War; 5 The Other Side of Freedom: Destitution, Disease, and Dependency among Freedwomen and Their Children during and after the Civil War; 6 Mary Walker, Mary Surratt, and Some Thoughts on Gender in the Civil War; 7 Embattled Manhood and New England Writers, 1860-1870
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
8 Sexual Terror in the Reconstruction South9 Politics and Petticoats in the Same Pod: Florence Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the Reconstruction of Southern Womanhood, 1865-1868; 10 The Confederate Retreat to Mars and Venus
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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