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Record Nr.

UNINA9910573821503321

Autore

Brill Kristen

Titolo

The weaker sex in war : gender and nationalism in Civil War Virginia / / Kristen Brill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Nation divided

Disciplina

973.7455

Soggetti

Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union -- Ladies' Defense Association -- The Richmond Bread Riot -- Confederate Women and Britain -- The Home for Needy Confederate Women.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and symbols, and it traces the impact of and the memories surrounding these women's wartime activism into the twentieth century."--