Women’s War

Women’s War
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Publisher : Belknap Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780674987975
ISBN-13 : 0674987977
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Women’s War by : Stephanie McCurry

Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.” —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass “Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers’ brows will not find them here...Explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the sidelines.” —Washington Post The idea that women are outside of war is a powerful myth, one that shaped the Civil War and still determines how we write about it today. Through three dramatic stories that span the war, Stephanie McCurry invites us to see America’s bloodiest conflict for what it was: not just a brothers’ war but a women’s war. When Union soldiers faced the unexpected threat of female partisans, saboteurs, and spies, long held assumptions about the innocence of enemy women were suddenly thrown into question. McCurry shows how the case of Clara Judd, imprisoned for treason, transformed the writing of Lieber’s Code, leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Black women’s fight for freedom had no place in the Union military’s emancipation plans. Facing a massive problem of governance as former slaves fled to their ranks, officers reclassified black women as “soldiers’ wives”—placing new obstacles on their path to freedom. Finally, McCurry offers a new perspective on the epic human drama of Reconstruction through the story of one slaveholding woman, whose losses went well beyond the material to intimate matters of family, love, and belonging, mixing grief with rage and recasting white supremacy in new, still relevant terms. “As McCurry points out in this gem of a book, many historians who view the American Civil War as a ‘people’s war’ nevertheless neglect the actions of half the people.” —James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom “In this brilliant exposition of the politics of the seemingly personal, McCurry illuminates previously unrecognized dimensions of the war’s elemental impact.” —Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering

The Women's War in the South

The Women's War in the South
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Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89073215329
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Women's War in the South by : Charles Gordon Waugh

Provides first-person accounts in which Southern women describetheir experiences during the Civil War, discussing how the conflict, which claimed their men, forced them into the unfamiliar roles of farmers, workers barterers, spies, and even soldiers.

Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 348
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0807855731
ISBN-13 : 9780807855737
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Mothers of Invention by : Drew Gilpin Faust

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

A Companion to American Women's History

A Companion to American Women's History
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 9780470998588
ISBN-13 : 047099858X
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to American Women's History by : Nancy A. Hewitt

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Women in the Civil War

Women in the Civil War
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0803282133
ISBN-13 : 9780803282131
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in the Civil War by : Mary Elizabeth Massey

Given by the Madeley Estate.

A Southern Woman

A Southern Woman
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0312087519
ISBN-13 : 9780312087517
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis A Southern Woman by : Elena Yates Eulo

Abandoned and ostracised during the Civil War, Elizabeth hides with her infant child in a Tennessee backwoods, where she is taken in hand by a woman who teaches the value of independence, and helps her forge a new life.

Keep the Days

Keep the Days
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 228
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781469640976
ISBN-13 : 146964097X
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Keep the Days by : Steven M. Stowe

Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.

The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
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Publisher : New York, D. Appleton, 1908;.
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : YALE:39002008676018
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 by : Eliza Frances Andrews

All Things Altered

All Things Altered
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781476603926
ISBN-13 : 1476603928
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis All Things Altered by : Marilyn Mayer Culpepper

Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the radical Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations of their tribulations through the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back together, following the death of her husband in the war. Virginia Caroline Smith Aiken, a wife and mother, born into affluence and security, struggles to emerge from the financial and psychological problems of the postwar world. Susan Darden, also a wife and mother, details the uncertainties and frustrations of her life in Fayette, Mississippi. Jo Gillis tells the sad tale of a young mother straining to cope with the depressed circumstances enveloping most ministers in the aftermath of the war. As the wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister in the Alabama Conference she sacrifices herself into an early grave in an attempt to further her husband's career. Inability to collect a debt three times that of the $10,000 debt her father owed brought Anna Clayton Logan, her eleven brothers and sisters, and her parents face-to-face with starvation.

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 296
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0252072189
ISBN-13 : 9780252072185
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore by : Laura F. Edwards

Establishing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South, demonstrating how family, kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in particular circumstances.