Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Harc Global Change Studies; 1)

Clinton, Catherine [Editor]; Silber, Nina [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0195080343 / ISBN 13: 9780195080346

Published by Oxford University Press, 1992

Seller Inventory # 0195080343-4-32760782

Synopsis:

Historians Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber have edited a collection of essays that deal with the question of women and the Civil War, as well as related problems. Divided Houses demonstrates that the abolitionist movement was strongly allied with nineteenth-century feminism, and shows how the ensuing debates over sectionalism and, eventually, secession, were often couched in terms of gender.

Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, such as the new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers; the effect of war on Southern women's daily actions on the homefront; the essential part Northern women played as nurses and spies; the war's impact on marriage and divorce; women's roles in the guerilla fighting; even the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. There is also a rare look at how gender affected the experience of freedom for African-American children. In addition, there is an introducion by Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson.

About the Author: Catherine Clinton is Visiting Professor of African-American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South, The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century, and Portraits of American Women (with G.B. Barker-Benfeld). Nina Silber is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University and is the author of the forthcoming The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair