" What do women know about war?" asked Fleta in the popular Northern story paper the
Flag of Our Union in January 1865." What do they not know," she answered:" What drop in …

In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young
shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and …

During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female
charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would …

This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War
period. It examines how, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the …

In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important
avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I …

It takes balls to write about war, so Hemingway tells us; combat experience, the proverbial
shaper of boys into manly men, is likewise mandatory. Critics and scholars who write about …

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American" new woman," Lynn Dumenil
examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the …

In the early 1980s, when I spent some months raking through the Louisiana State and
Tulane University archives reading unpublished materials by southern women writers about …

During and after the Civil War, southern women played a critical role in shaping the South's
evolving collective memory by penning journals and diaries, historical accounts, memoirs …

'They also serve who only stand and wait'The idea of there being a'women's writing'during
the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain …