The Weaker Sex in War : Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia / Kristen Brill.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A nation divided: Studies in the Civil War era | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813947730
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Contents:
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union -- Ladies' Defense Association -- The Richmond Bread Riot -- Confederate Women and Britain -- The Home for Needy Confederate Women.
Summary: "Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and symbols, and it traces the impact of and the memories surrounding these women's wartime activism into the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union -- Ladies' Defense Association -- The Richmond Bread Riot -- Confederate Women and Britain -- The Home for Needy Confederate Women.

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"Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and symbols, and it traces the impact of and the memories surrounding these women's wartime activism into the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

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