Women and the American Civil WarAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 30 August 2018
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The scholarship on womenâ?Ts 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 womenâ?Ts comparable experiences across the regions, focusing particularly on womenâ?Ts politics, wartime mobilization, emancipation, wartime relief, women and families, religion, reconstruction, and Civil War memory. In each pairing, historians analyze womenâ?Ts 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 womenâ?Ts relationship to the state in each case?How did womenâ?Ts growing suspicions about the wartime state intrude on the stateâ?Ts 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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