
Women’s War
Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
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Teri Schnaubelt
In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war.
When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. We meet Clara Judd, a Confederate spy whose imprisonment for treason sparked heated controversy, defying the principle of civilian immunity and leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Hundreds of thousands of enslaved women escaped across Union lines, upending emancipation policies that extended only to enslaved men. The Union's response was to classify fugitive black women as "soldiers' wives," regardless of whether they were married - offering them some protection but placing new obstacles on their path to freedom.
In the war's aftermath, the Confederate grande dame Gertrude Thomas wrestled with her loss of status and of her former slaves. War, emancipation, and economic devastation affected her family intimately, and through her life McCurry helps us see how fundamental the changes of Reconstruction were.
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"[Stephen McCurry] demonstrates how women's participation changed not only their lives but the very understanding of war itself--its laws, its mechanisms of violence, its legacies and aftermath. In this brilliant exposition of the politics of the seemingly personal, McCurry illuminates previously unrecognized dimensions of the war's elemental impact." (Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering)
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Interesting take on the Civil War
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information you never heard about before
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This is not “No man’s land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I” or “Code Name Veracity”. That said, it is an important look at this period of time focusing on the women’s position in society and how the nuclear families evolved in the south.
Informative, deceiving title
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Good
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Not exactly as advertised
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Pedantic
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A Gendered Exploration of the American Civil War
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