Civil War Sisterhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil War Sisterhood write by Judith Ann Giesberg. This book was released on 2006-07. Civil War Sisterhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study that challenges established scholarship on the history of women's public activism.
Army at Home
Army at Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army at Home write by Judith Giesberg. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Army at Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Such Anxious Hours
Such Anxious Hours - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Such Anxious Hours write by Jo Ann Daly Carr. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Such Anxious Hours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Patriotic Toil
Patriotic Toil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patriotic Toil write by Jeanie Attie. This book was released on 1998. Patriotic Toil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would ensure women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. Coming after years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic. Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political rights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence. Attie draws on letters by hundreds of women in which they reflect on their political awakenings at the war's outbreak and their increasing skepticism of national policies as the conflict dragged on. Her book integrates the Civil War into the history of American gender relations and the development of feminism, providing a nuanced analysis of the relationship among gender construction, class development, and state formation in nineteenth-century America.
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America write by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. This book was released on 2019-05-21. Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, a 2020 PROSE Award, and a Plutarch Award finalist “The word befitting this work is ‘masterpiece.’ ” —Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters sought their fortunes in the North, reinventing themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor. National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past. Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Grounded in decades of research, the family’s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives of three Southern women.
