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Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

By Catherine Clinton , Nina Silber

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0195174445, 9780195174441, 9781429400343
LCC
HQ1075.5.U6 B38 2006
Open Library ID
OL22723028M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
989 kB (1013167 bytes)
Pages
232\226
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gender and the Civil War. Following in its wake, Battle Scars showcases insights from award-winning historians as well as emerging scholars. This volume depicts the ways in which gender, race, nationalism, religion, literary culture, sexual mores, and even epidemiology underwent radical transformations from when Americans went to war in 1861 through Reconstruction. Examining the interplay among such phenomena as racial stereotypes, sexual violence, trauma, and notions of masculinity, Battle Scars represents the best new scholarship on men and women in the North and South and highlights how lives were transformed by this era of tumultuous change.

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