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The Women's Fight

The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

by Thavolia Glymph
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Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"—the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War—North and South, white and black, slave and free—showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas. Glymph focuses on the ideas and ideologies that drove women's actions, allegiances, and politics. We encounter women as they stood their ground, moved into each other's territory, sought and found common ground, and fought for vastly different principles. Some women used all the tools and powers they could muster to prevent the radical transformations the war increasingly imposed, some fought with equal might for the same transformations, and other women fought simply to keep the war at bay as they waited for their husbands and sons to return home.
Glymph shows how the Civil War exposed as never before the nation's fault lines, not just along race and class lines but also along the ragged boundaries of gender. However, Glymph makes clear that women's experiences were not new to the mid-nineteenth century; rather, many of them drew on memories of previous conflicts, like the American Revolution and the War of 1812, to make sense of the Civil War's disorder and death.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Littlefield History of the Civil War Era

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  • Release date

    November 27, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781469653655

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      • ISBN: 9781469653648

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      • ISBN: 9781469653648
      • File size: 5801 KB
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2020

      Glymph (history and law, Duke Univ.; Out of the House of Bondage) sets out to prove two things with this latest book. First, the United States during the Civil War was as divided along gender lines as it was along geographic, political, socioeconomic, and racial lines. Second, rather than viewing the American Civil War as the story of how northern white men fought to end slavery, we should view the war as the story of how enslaved blacks wrestled for their own freedom. While other books have detailed how black men fought for their freedom, Glymph focuses on the important role played by enslaved black women in order to achieve freedom. Glymph also examines the experiences of white women of all socioeconomic classes from both North and South, who were divided along political lines and experienced loss during the war. Glymph, however, makes the case that what united them was their racism and disdain for those enslaved. VERDICT By telling the important, yet often-overlooked story of how enslaved women fought for their rights, and how white women often upheld the status quo, Glymph has written a refreshing, much-needed account of Civil War historiography.--Michael Farrell, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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