The weaker sex in war : gender and nationalism in Civil War Virginia / Kristen Brill.
"Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Nation divided.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and symbols, and it traces the impact of and the memories surrounding these women's wartime activism into the twentieth century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813947715 9780813947716 0813947731 9780813947730 |