Divided Houses Gender and the Civil War

by Clinton, Catherine; Silber, Nina

• ISBN13: 9780195074079
• ISBN10: 0195074076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
James M. McPherson
Part I Imperiled Unions
The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender	3	(19)
LeeAnn Whites
The Politics of Yeoman Households in South Carolina	22	(21)
Stephanie McCurry
Part II Men at War
Soldiering, Manhood, and Coming of Age: A Northern Volunteer	43	(12)
Reid Mitchell
No Desperate Hero: Manhood and Freedom in a Union Soldier's Experience	55	(21)
David W. Blight
``I's a Man Now'': Gender and African American Men	76	(21)
Jim Cullen
Part III Women at War
Arranging a Doll's House: Refined Women as Union Nurses	97	(17)
Kristie Ross
Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies	114	(20)
Lyde Cullen Sizer
``Missing in Action'': Women of the Confederacy	134	(13)
George Rable
Women and Guerrilla Warfare	147	(24)
Michael Fellman
Part IV The Southern Homefront
Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War	171	(29)
Drew Gilpin Faust
``Since the War Broke Out'': The Marriage of Kate and William McLure	200	(13)
Joan Cashin
The Children of Jubilee: African American Childhood in Wartime	213	(17)
Peter Bardaglio
Wartime Dialogues on Illicit Sex: White Women and Black Men	230	(17)
Martha Hodes
Part V The Northern Homefront
Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North	247	(13)
Jeanie Attie
Writing Out the War: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Averted Gaze	260	(23)
Patricia R. Hill
Part IV The War Comes Home
Intemperate Men, Spiteful Women, and Jefferson Davis	283	(23)
Nina Silber
Reconstructing Freedwomen	306	(14)
Catherine Clinton
Reshaping the Bonds of Womanhood: Divorce in Reconstruction North Carolina	320	(15)
Victoria Bynum
Epilogue	335	(6)
Bibliography	341	(12)
Notes	353	(62)
About the Authors	415