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"The idea of the war as a whites-only brotherhood masculinized the memory of the war in popular literature." Growing up, I always learned about the Civil War in such a context. So as I read, I was taken aback and impressed at how much attention was intially paid to the suffering of women during the war. I know it quickly wanned and was forgotten, but the fact that some authors conceded that the women at home may have suffered more than the soldiers dying on the battlefields was a real surprise to my 21st century mind.-- Kokeefe | "The idea of the war as a whites-only brotherhood masculinized the memory of the war in popular literature." Growing up, I always learned about the Civil War in such a context. So as I read, I was taken aback and impressed at how much attention was intially paid to the suffering of women during the war. I know it quickly wanned and was forgotten, but the fact that some authors conceded that the women at home may have suffered more than the soldiers dying on the battlefields was a real surprise to my 21st century mind.-- Kokeefe | ||
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| + | In response to efritz's comment (about Southern women's experience being the dominant or iconic image of the Civil War), I have a completely different experience than efritz apparently has. When I think of the Civil War, I think first of the actual fighting--the names of battles that are drilled in previous schooling, the battlefields I've visited with no mention of women anywhere. I do not think as much of Gone With the Wind, which is the only Southern women's story I can recall, and which is itself a fiction, anyways. I understood Fahs as saying that this kind of presentation of viewpoints of the War is still the dominant one, saying that "this may well be a development sustained by a mode of thought set in motion over a century ago" (149). Her point is that it's worth looking at a women's or "feminized" lens on the war, and to set aside study for both Southern women and Northern women. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
== Elsa Barkley Brown, “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” == | == Elsa Barkley Brown, “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” == | ||
