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Women and the American Civil War - North-South Counterpoints (Paperback)
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Women and the American Civil War - North-South Counterpoints (Paperback)
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The scholarship on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War is
rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or
subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern
peoples during the war. In a series of eight paired essays,
scholars examine women's comparable experiences across the regions,
focusing particularly on women's politics, wartime mobilization,
emancipation, wartime relief, women and families, religion,
reconstruction, and Civil War memory. In each pairing, historians
analyze women's lives, interests, and engagement in public issues
and private concerns and think critically about what stories and
questions still need attention. Among their questions are: What
rightly counts as war mobilization, what is relief work, and what
was women's relationship to the state in each case? How did women's
growing suspicions about the wartime state intrude on the state's
ability to prosecute war? How were gender expectations in both
regions riven with assumptions about race and class, what of this
survived the war, and how was gender recast in the aftermath of
emancipation? How did women define and even direct the trajectory
of war and its meaning? These and other questions emerging from
this book will inform and encourage new work on women in the war
and will invite scholars to look at the period with fresh
perspective.
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