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
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
Englisch
Oxford Univ. Press
9780195174441, 0195174453, 0195174445
XI, 213 S
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