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Battle scars : gender and sexuality in the American Civil War /
This collection addresses how gender scholarship has changed interpretations of the Civil War. The contributors examine the study of masculinity and war, expand understandings of sexuality and politics, and deal with issues of health, treason, religion, domesticity, and slavery, as they affected Nor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.