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



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Titolo: Battle scars : gender and sexuality in the American Civil War / / edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 pages)
Disciplina: 305.3/0973/09034
Soggetto topico: Sex role - United States - History - 19th century
Women - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects
United States Social conditions To 1865
United States Social conditions 1865-1918
Altri autori: ClintonCatherine <1952->  
SilberNina  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Battle scars  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771163-4
0-19-803888-7
1-280-53304-8
1-4294-0034-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824147703321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.