Battle scars : gender and sexuality in the American Civil War /

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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 South...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clinton, Catherine, 1952-, Silber, Nina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
To 1918
Sex role > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > History > 19th century.
Gender identity.
Women.
American Civil War
Gender Identity
Women
History, 19th Century
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Identité sexuelle.
Femmes.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Sex role.
Social aspects.
Social conditions
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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