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Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America)
Judith Giesberg
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Description for Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America)
Paperback. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. ... Read more
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Civil War America
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807872635
SKU
V9780807872635
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About Judith Giesberg
Judith Giesberg is associate professor of history at Villanova University and author of Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition.
Reviews for Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America)
In Giesberg's action-packed Civil War study, women risk body and soul to make a living and to protest segregation, conscription, and low wages. These are not teary-eyed maidens waiting out the war with hankies gripped to their throats; they embody home front struggles that paralleled battlefields in transforming U.S. society.
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