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Item Details
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GENDER AND THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT
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| By: |
Nina Silber |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£33.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0807832448 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780807832448 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2009 |
| Series: |
The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Exploring gender relations during the Civil War, this book compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. It finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. |
| Synopsis: |
This book offers a comparative approach to gender across the North-South divide.In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their 'causes' and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war.Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, nothing that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory.Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women - black and white - on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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