The Civil War as a crisis in gender : Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890
Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, which the author probes throughout this book. Gender concepts and constructions, the author suggests, deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat. The author's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge the reader's understanding of the war and their acceptance of its historiography
History
x, 277 pages ; 24 cm
9780820317144, 0820317144
31166391
Masculinity in crisis: Civil War history as a "view from somewhere"
Independent men and dependent women: Augusta and the outbreak of war
Fighting men and loving women: the mobilization of the homefront
Benevolent men and destitute women: the domestication of the market
Defeated men and vulnerable women: the collapse of the confederacy
The domestic reconstruction of southern white men
The politics of domestic loss: the Ladies' Memorial Association and the Confederate dead
The divided mind as a gendered mind: the Confederate Survivors Association and the New South