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" 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 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 …
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 …
summary Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to articulate their …
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining …
Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and …
Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.”—David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass “Readers …
Women from across the social spectrum had their lives transformed by World War I. The literary culture of the early 20th century led a surprising number of women to write about …
" Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front."--Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944" Our Mothers' War" …