Women and the American Civil War : North-South counterpoints / edited by Judith Giesberg and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966- editor.
• Miller, Randall M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women and war--United States--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Southern women and politics in the Civil War era / Elizabeth R. Varon
• "All ladies have politics": women, morality, and politics in the North / Stacey M. Robertson
• "With hearts nerved by the necessity for prompt action": Southern women, mobilization, and the wartime state / Lisa Tendrich Frank
• Northern women, the State, and wartime mobilization / Jessica Ziparo
• Southern women and emancipation during the Civil War / Rebecca Capobianco
• Northern women and emancipation / Chandra Manning
• "Needles as weapons": Southern women and Civil War relief / Libra Hilde
• Real women and mythical womanhood: war relief at the Northern home front / Jeanie Attie
• Women and families on the Southern home front / Jacqueline Glass Campbell
• Women and the family at home in the North / Nicole Etcheson
• "Hasten the day": slavery's apocalypse among enslaved women and planter women in the Civil War South / W. Scott Poole
• "I can read his righteous sentence": female Christian abolitionists and the millennium / Timothy Wesley
• "In times of change and trouble like these": commonalities among Southern women during Reconstruction / Elizabeth Parish Smith
• Women and Reconstruction in the North / Faye Dudden
• Southern memories and reconstructions: the shifting grounds and contested places of women's Civil War memorial work / Micki McElya
• Faithful helpmates and fervent activists: Northern women and Civil War memory / Wendy Hamand Venet.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781631013102
• 1631013106
• 9781631013096 (electronic book)
• 1631013092

OCLC:

1045182106