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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | I think it was interesting how this chapter compared men and women's struggles and strifes during the Civil War. The fact that women believed their suffering to be equal to, or surpassing that of men's suffering is something I do not quite agree with. I think that women's suffering was more emotional, while men's suffering was physical. I understand the thought process, but I believe that the physical suffering of men definitely surpasses that of women. The men had to deal with the women pressuring them to fight in the first place, and then the actual fighting was just the icing on the cake for the men. I do respect the suffering wome nendured though. I can't imagine how these women went on, but I think it was interesting how the book said that women who had to deal with loss should "seek out benevolent work." (P. 143). --- Alex Mankarios | ||
== 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” == | ||
