| Contents |
The Civil War as a crisis in gender / LeeAnn Whites -- The politics of yeoman households in South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry -- Soldiering, manhood, and coming of age: a northern volunteer / Reid Mitchell -- No desperate hero: manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience / David W. Blight -- "I's a man now": gender and African American men / Jim Cullen -- Arranging a doll's house: refined women as Union nurses / Kristie Ross -- Acting her part: narratives of Union women spies / Lyde Cullen Sizer -- "Missing in action": women of the confedercy / George Rable -- Women and guerrilla warfare / Michael Fellman -- Altars of sacrifice: Confederate women and the narratives of war / Drew Gilpin Faust -- "Since the war broke out": the marriage of Kate and William McLure -- The children of jubilee: African American childhood in wartime / Peter Bardaglio -- Wartime dialogues on illicit sex: white women and black men / Martha Hodes -- Warwork and the crisis of domesticity in the North / Jeanie Attie -- Writing out the war: Harriet Beecher Stowe's averted gaze / Patricia R. Hill -- Intemperate men, spiteful women, and Jefferson Davis / Nina Silber -- Reconstructing freedwomen / Catherine Clinton -- Reshapping the bonds of womanhood: divorce in reconstruction North Carolina / Victoria Bynum. |
