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UNINA9910451693003321 |
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Titolo |
Battle scars [[electronic resource] ] : gender and sexuality in the American Civil War / / edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-803888-7 |
1-280-53304-8 |
1-4294-0034-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ClintonCatherine <1952-> |
SilberNina |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex role - United States - History - 19th century |
Women - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
United States Social conditions 1865-1918 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
8 Sexual Terror in the Reconstruction South9 Politics and Petticoats in the Same Pod: Florence Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the Reconstruction of Southern Womanhood, 1865-1868; 10 The Confederate Retreat to Mars and Venus |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Addresses how gender scholarship has changed interpretations of the |
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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 Southern men and women during the Civil War era. |
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