Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 2005 M12 15 - 376 páginas As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation. |
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... 7 Memory and the Triumphal Narrative 211 Appendix: A Note on Historiography 247 Notes 253 Bibliography 315 Index 343 Illustrations and Figures illustrations Sanitary Commission fair workers 13 Harewood 0807864153: Contents.
... 7 Memory and the Triumphal Narrative 211 Appendix: A Note on Historiography 247 Notes 253 Bibliography 315 Index 343 Illustrations and Figures illustrations Sanitary Commission fair workers 13 Harewood 0807864153: Contents.
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... .3 Putting women at the center of the story— albeit women who were white, well educated, articulate, and elite like themselves—yielded a narrative about progress in which a collective experience of 0807864153: Introduction.
... .3 Putting women at the center of the story— albeit women who were white, well educated, articulate, and elite like themselves—yielded a narrative about progress in which a collective experience of 0807864153: Introduction.
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... narrative of military strife. More than twenty thousand women in the Union and Confederate states engaged in relief ... narratives. Part 1 considers hospital workers during the war: who they were, how they became involved in hospital ...
... narrative of military strife. More than twenty thousand women in the Union and Confederate states engaged in relief ... narratives. Part 1 considers hospital workers during the war: who they were, how they became involved in hospital ...
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... narratives. Whether given to exaggeration, candor, or faulty memory, former hospital workers used the narrative to illustrate the influence of domestic ideals in the military-medical arena, their developing sense of agency, and their ...
... narratives. Whether given to exaggeration, candor, or faulty memory, former hospital workers used the narrative to illustrate the influence of domestic ideals in the military-medical arena, their developing sense of agency, and their ...
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... narratives have led us to conclude, perhaps too hastily, that elite Southerners made up a significant percentage of all Confederate female hospital workers. Bearing in mind that families would have objected to their service, elites ...
... narratives have led us to conclude, perhaps too hastily, that elite Southerners made up a significant percentage of all Confederate female hospital workers. Bearing in mind that families would have objected to their service, elites ...
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Part II The Legacy of War Work | 143 |
Appendix A Note on Historiography | 247 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 315 |
Index | 343 |
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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America Jane E. Schultz Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America Jane E. Schultz Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
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