ISBN:
9780198038887
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 213 Seiten)
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Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Battle Scars : Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War
DDC:
305.3/0973/09034
Keywords:
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
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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