Southern women and politics in the Civil War era / Elizabeth R. Varon -- "All ladies have politics": women, morality, and politics in the North / Stacey M. Robertson -- "With hearts nerved by the necessity for prompt action": Southern women, mobilization, and the wartime state / Lisa Tendrich Frank -- Northern women, the State, and wartime mobilization / Jessica Ziparo -- Southern women and emancipation during the Civil War / Rebecca Capobianco -- Northern women and emancipation / Chandra Manning -- "Needles as weapons": Southern women and Civil War relief / Libra Hilde -- Real women and mythical womanhood: war relief at the Northern home front / Jeanie Attie -- Women and families on the Southern home front / Jacqueline Glass Campbell -- Women and the family at home in the North / Nicole Etcheson -- "Hasten the day": slavery's apocalypse among enslaved women and planter women in the Civil War South / W. Scott Poole -- "I can read his righteous sentence": female Christian abolitionists and the millennium / Timothy Wesley -- "In times of change and trouble like these": commonalities among Southern women during Reconstruction / Elizabeth Parish Smith -- Women and Reconstruction in the North / Faye Dudden -- Southern memories and reconstructions: the shifting grounds and contested places of women's Civil War memorial work / Micki McElya -- Faithful helpmates and fervent activists: Northern women and Civil War memory / Wendy Hamand Venet.
Summary:
"In a series of eight paired essays, scholars compare the experiences of Northern and Southern women in the U.S. Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
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