Title Battle scars : gender and sexuality in the American Civil War / edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Northern and Southern men and women during the Civil War era Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century Sex role Social aspects Social conditions Women SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140512 United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Clinton, Catherine, 1952- Silber, Nina ISBN 1280533048 9781280533044 9780198038887 0198038887

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