The Civil War as a crisis in gender : Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890 / LeeAnn Whites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whites, LeeAnn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Georgia--Augusta--History--19th century.

Women.

Elite (Social sciences)--Georgia--Augusta--History--19th century.

Elite (Social sciences).

Sex role--Georgia--Augusta--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Man-woman relationships--Georgia--Augusta--History--19th century.

Man-woman relationships.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.

United States.

Augusta (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Augusta (Ga.).

Georgia--Augusta.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1995]

Summary:

Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat. Whites's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge our understanding of the war and our acceptance of its historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820317144

OCLC:

31166391