| Description |
xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Colliding and collaborating : gender and Civil War scholarship / Nina Silber -- Fighting like men : Civil War dilemmas of abolitionist manhood / Stephen Kantrowitz -- "Oh I pass everywhere" : Catholic nuns in the Gulf South during the Civil War / Virginia Gould -- "Public women" and sexual politics during the American Civil War / Catherine Clinton -- The other side of freedom : destitution, disease, and dependency among freedwomen and their children during and after the Civil War / Jim Downs -- Mary Walker, Mary Surratt, and some thoughts on gender in the Civil War / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- Embattled manhood and New England writers, 1860-1870 / John Stauffer -- Sexual terror in the Reconstruction South / Lisa Cardyn -- Politics and petticoats in the same pod : Florence Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the reconstruction of southern womanhood, 1865-1868 / Anne Sarah Rubin -- The Confederate retreat to Mars and Venus / Thomas J. Brown. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
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| Chronological Term |
1865-1918 |
| Subject |
Gender roles. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
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Silber, Nina.
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| ISBN |
0195174453 alkaline paper |
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0195174445 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780195174458 |
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9780195174441 |
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