Army at Home : Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front /

Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class women > Social conditions.
Working class women.
Women.
Social aspects.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Working class women > Northeastern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Working class women > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States.
Northeastern States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : a true-hearted Union woman : Lydia Bixby's civil war
  • From harvest field to battlefield : rural women and the war
  • Rumors of relief, stories of displacement
  • Bodies out of place : women war workers
  • Right to ride : women's streetcar battles and the theaters of war
  • Martha goes to Washington : women's divided loyalties
  • Platforms of grief : widows on the battlefield.

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