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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824147703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-771163-4

0-19-803888-7

1-280-53304-8

1-4294-0034-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Altri autori (Persone)

ClintonCatherine <1952->

SilberNina

Disciplina

305.3/0973/09034

Soggetti

Sex role - United States - History - 19th century

Women - United States - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States Social conditions To 1865

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This collection addresses how gender scholarship has changed



interpretations of the Civil War. It examines the study of masculinity and war, 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.