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There was a definite emphasis on the idea of "social mothering" in this chapter. Whites reiterates the basic belief that women needed to publicly mother their men at war, regardless of whether or not they were their biological mother. From sewing their clothes and doing their part to "protect their men on the homefront" to tending to the graves of the deceased, women had a civic duty to provide that moral and matronly figure in the lives of their men. -Kelly W. | There was a definite emphasis on the idea of "social mothering" in this chapter. Whites reiterates the basic belief that women needed to publicly mother their men at war, regardless of whether or not they were their biological mother. From sewing their clothes and doing their part to "protect their men on the homefront" to tending to the graves of the deceased, women had a civic duty to provide that moral and matronly figure in the lives of their men. -Kelly W. | ||
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| + | I thought it was interesting in this chapter how the paradigm seemed to shift so drastically in this chapter to the women being the overall caregivers and providers for the family. I have to wonder if the men or the women would have expected the role of the women in the family to be so vital, and I also have to wonder if - had the South been victorious - this would have been the case at all. -Cash | ||
== Chapter 7 == | == Chapter 7 == | ||
