Patriotic toil : Northern women and the American Civil War

Patriotic toil : Northern women and the American Civil War /

"During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization to ensure that women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. After years of debate ove...

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Main Author: Attie, Jeanie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
United States Sanitary Commission.
United States. > Army > Sanitary affairs.
Women > United States > History > 19th century.
Women.
Gender identity.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Health aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "We All Have Views Now": Tapping Female Patriotism
  • 2. Imposing "A Masculine Discipline": A Nationalist Elite and the U.S. Sanitary Commission
  • 3. "For the 'Boys in Blue'": Organizing the Homefront
  • 4. "A Swindling Concern": Homefront Charges of Corruption
  • 5. "Bumping into Each Other": Managers, Canvassers, and Competition
  • 6. "Half-Savage Individualism": The USSC Confronts the Female Public
  • 7. "Fair Mania": Branch Autonomy and Local Civic Pride
  • 8. "It Is a People's War": The USSC Retreats
  • 9. "Becoming History": Appraising Female Warwork
  • Conclusion: "The Lessons of War."

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