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Title Yankee women : gender battles in the Civil War / Elizabeth D. Leonard
Author Leonard, Elizabeth D
Publisher New York : W.W. Norton, 1995, ©1994
Edition Norton paperback edition
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Stacks  E628 .L46 1995    AVAILABLE
Subject Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Wittenmyer, Annie, 1827-1900
Bucklin, Sophronia E
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work
Description xxv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition Norton paperback edition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index
Contents "No place for woman"? : Sophronia Bucklin and Civil War nursing -- "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid -- "A thing that nothing but the depraved Yankee nation could produce" : Mary Walker, M.D. and the limits of tolerance -- The women and the storytellers after the War
Summary Tells the stories of three Northern women who radically changed America's central notions about gender during the Civil War
ISBN 0393313727 (pbk.)
9780393313727 (pbk.)
OCLC # 874996128
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