Occupied Women : Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War /

In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a staggering 90 percent of eligible white males in the South had joined the military. With...

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Otros Autores: Long, Alecia P., 1966- (Editor , Autor de introducción, etc., Contribuidor), Whites, LeeAnn (Editor , Autor de introducción, etc., Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Edición:Louisiana pbk. edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Employment.
Women and war.
Women.
Social aspects.
Sex role.
Occupations.
Military occupation > Social aspects.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Professions > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Occupation militaire > Aspect social > États confederes d'Amerique.
Femmes > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Femmes et guerre > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Occupations > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Military occupation > Social aspects > Confederate States of America.
Women > Employment > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women and war > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / LeeAnn Whites and Alecia P. Long
  • (Mis)remembering general order no. 28 : Benjamin Butler, the woman order, and historical memory / Alecia P. Long
  • Bedrooms as battlefields : the role of gender politics in Sherman's march / Lisa Tendrich Frank
  • "Physical abuse- and rough handling" : race, gender, and sexual justice in the occupied South / E. Susan Barber and Charles F. Ritter
  • Gettysburg out of bounds : women and soldiers in the embattled borough, 1863 / Margaret Creighton
  • "She-rebels" on the supply line : gender conventions in Civil War Kentucky / Kristen L. Streater
  • "Corresponding with the enemy" : mobilizing the relational field of battle in St. Louis / LeeAnn Whites
  • The practical ladies of occupied Natchez / Cita Cook
  • Between slavery and freedom : African American women and occupation in the slave South / Leslie A. Schwalm
  • Occupied at home : Women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt / Victoria E. Bynum
  • Widow in a swamp : gender, Unionism, and literacy in the occupied South during the civil war / Joan E. Cashin
  • Epilogue : The Fortieth Congress, southern women, and the gender politics of postwar occupation / Judith Giesberg.

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