Gender and the Sectional Conflict

Zusammenfassung Exploring gender relations during the Civil War! this book compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. It finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Silber
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780807832448
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-3244-8
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era; Steven and Janice Brose Lectur; The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous