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Civil War Sisterhood - The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (Paperback, Revised)
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Civil War Sisterhood - The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (Paperback, Revised)
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The Civil War-era U.S. Sanitary Commission (USSC) was the largest
wartime benevolent institution. Judith Ann Giesberg demonstrates
convincingly that that generation of women provided a crucial link
between the local evangelical crusades of the early nineteenth
century and the sweeping national reform and suffrage movements of
the postwar period.
Drawing on Sanitary Commission documents and memoirs, the author
details how northern elite and middle-class women's experiences in
and influence over the USSC formed the impetus for later reform
efforts. Giesberg explores the ways in which women honed
organizational and administrative skills, developed new strategies
that combined strong centralized leadership with regional
grassroots autonomy, and created a sisterhood that reached across
class lines. She begins her study with an examination of the
Woman's Central Association of Relief, an organization that gave
birth to the USSC. Giesberg then discusses the significant roles of
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Henry Whitney
Bellows, and considers the rationale for bringing women and men
together in a collaborative wartime relief program. She shows how
Louisa Lee Schuyler, Abigail Williams May, and other young women
maneuvered and challenged the male-run Commission as they built an
effective national network for giving critical support to soldiers
on the battlefield and their families on the home front.
This fresh perspective on the evolution of women's political
culture fills an important gap in the literature, and it will
appeal to historians, women's studies scholars, and Civil War buffs
alike.
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