Battle Scars

Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

By: Catherine Clinton (Editor), Nina Silber (Editor)

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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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"No historians have done more to broaden our understanding of the Civil War than Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber. In this new volume, they stretch the boundaries yet again, introducing us to new voices, new subjects, and new ways of looking at old topics. Everyone interested in this central drama of American history should be grateful."--Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia "Civil War historians are already in debt to Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber for their groundbreaking collection Divided Houses. This is most assuredly another 'must read' for anyone seeking fresh and fascinating insight into the Civil War and its lasting aftermath."--Lesley J. Gordon, co-editor of Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls History Military History American Civil War Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Contributors	p. ix
Introduction. Colliding and Collaborating: Gender and Civil War Scholarship	p. 3
Fighting Like Men: Civil War Dilemmas of Abolitionist Manhood	p. 19
"Oh I Pass Everywhere": Catholic Nuns in the Gulf South during the Civil War	p. 41
"Public Women" and Sexual Politics during the American Civil War	p. 61
The Other Side of Freedom: Destitution, Disease, and Dependency among Freedwomen and Their Children during and after the Civil War	p. 78
Mary Walker, Mary Surratt, and Some Thoughts on Gender in the Civil War	p. 104
Embattled Manhood and New England Writers, 1860-1870	p. 120
Sexual Terror in the Reconstruction South	p. 140
Politics and Petticoats in the Same Pod: Florence Fay, Betsey Bittersweet, and the Reconstruction of Southern Womanhood, 1865-1868	p. 168
The Confederate Retreat to Mars and Venus	p. 189
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