Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War
by Catherine Clinton
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This collection addresses how gender scholarship has changed interpretations of the Civil War. It examines the study of masculinity and war, and deals with issues of health, treason, religion, domesticity, and slavery as they affected Northern and Southern men and women during the Civil War era.Tags
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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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Catherine Clinton is the author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom and Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars. Educated at Harvard, Sussex, and Princeton, She is a member of the advisory committee to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and holds a chair in U.S. history at Queen's University Belfast.
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- Important events
- American Civil War (1861–1865)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 305.3 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by gender or sex
- LCC
- HQ1075.5 .U6 .B38 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sex role
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- Languages
- English
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