Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War - Softcover

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9780195174441: Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War
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ISBN 10: 0195174445 ISBN 13: 9780195174441
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Catherine Clinton is a historian and the author of many titles, including Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.

Nina Silber is Associate Professor of History at Boston University and the author, most recently, of Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. They co-edited Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (OUP, 1992).

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195174445
ISBN 13 
9780195174441
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232
Editor
Clinton Catherine, Silber Nina
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