It is the men, Hector tells Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, who" must see to the
fighting." From ancient history to our own time, war has centered on men, for they have …

The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of
the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness …

" Cutter argues that" redemptive womanhood"--The idea that women hold active
responsibility for the nation's moral and religious health-is the key element of gender …

When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted
unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for …

In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and
offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male …

In recent years historians have come to recognize the central role of the family in the
shaping of American society. Especially in the eighteenth century, when" household" and" …

Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth,
says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, deeply influenced …

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 …

Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and
their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane …

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 …