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I thought it was interesting that Mary Livermore's observation of the women working in the fields at first bothered her. Livermore compared women’s devotion to their family life and maintaining their farms to men’s devotion to the war when she said, “the women had enlisted in the war.” This gave women some gender equality and these responsibilities were accepted because it was in the name of family, home, and country. -Marsha | I thought it was interesting that Mary Livermore's observation of the women working in the fields at first bothered her. Livermore compared women’s devotion to their family life and maintaining their farms to men’s devotion to the war when she said, “the women had enlisted in the war.” This gave women some gender equality and these responsibilities were accepted because it was in the name of family, home, and country. -Marsha | ||
| − | In Modern Problems, Mary Livermore spoke of the work of women. She | + | In Modern Problems, Mary Livermore spoke of the work of women. She set a strong and emotional tone that women set forth in the war. I think she was saying that the men in the war were given hope through the inspiring women and “ministering angels.” She also compares women’s “relief societies” to regiments in the war. -Marsha |
== Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | == Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | ||
