Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Harc Global Change Studies; 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195080343 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Gender Wartime Crisis in a Historical Perspective" according to Pop Curious. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War is a collection of essays pertaining to the crisis in gender relations that accompanied the Civil War in America. As a collection, the essays present a narrative that chronicles the various impacts on gender that affected men and women, the North and the South, as well as slaves and non-slaves. What emerges is a cohesive body of text that is informative, illuminating, and instructive. The themes most explored in this volume are those of empowerment through abolitionism. In The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender Relations by Leann Whites, the two groups most perceptive of the gende. HH said Needs tempering. About half of the essays in this volume are an important contribution to understanding the ways in which gender visions and the nation's greatest war interacted with each other. LeeAnn Whites's provocative opening essay suggests the many insights that can emerge and essay after essay illustrates these new possibilities.Some essays open up profitably traditional questions about the conflict. Why did the South lose? Drew Faust suggests that Southern women abandoned the rebellion as its demands for self-sacrifice and self-denial escalated beyond tolerance; they urged husbands to desert, gave up their own contributions to. I read anything about the American Civil War Rodney Orr IT was long winded in some aspects of the book, but over all intersting in how thing came about to bring on the war.
Divided Houses is the first book to address this sorely neglected topic, showing how the themes of gender, class, race, and sexuality interacted to forge the beginnings of a new society. No American needs to be told that the Civil War brought the United States to a critical juncture in its history. The war changed forever the face of the nation, the nature of American politics, the status of African-Americans, and the daily lives of millions of people. Northerners and Southerners alike frequently ridiculed each other as "effeminate": slaveowners were characterized by Yankees as idle and use
The oft-discussed "separate sphere" of women in that period is shown to have been a "privilege" only of upper-class white women, and a close reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe's portrait of Sojourner Truth explains how Stowe's view of Truth as a regal and noble character, even while portraying her as a naive, semiliterate creature, reflected used the expectations of her own upper-class, white, educated social circle. Silber is assistant professor of history at Boston University. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. The writers take up interesting topics (the role of wo