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Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer

 
9780870133688: Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the American Civil War: x
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ISBN 10: 0870133683 ISBN 13: 9780870133688
Editorial: Michigan State University Press, 1994

Sinopsis

In Trials and Triumphs, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Her respect for these nineteenth-century women and their experiences, as well as her engaging and intimate style, enable Culpepper to transport readers into a tumultuous time of death, destruction, and privation―into a world turned upside down, an environment that seemed as strange to contemporaries as it does in our own time. Culpepper has uncovered forgotten images of America's bloodiest conflict contained in the diaries and correspondence of more than 500 women. Trials and Triumphs reveals the anxiety, hardship, turmoil and tragedy that women endured during the war years. It reveals the fierce loyalty and enmity that nearly severed the Union, the horror of enemy occupation, and even the desperate austerity of an itinerate refugee life.
Just as the Civil War influenced culture and government, it shaped the attitudes of a new breed of pioneering woman. As the war progressed, either by choice or by default, men turned over more and more responsibility to women on the home front. As a result, women began to break free from the "cult of domesticity" to expand career opportunities. By war's end, women on both sides of the conflict proved to themselves and to a nearly shattered nation that the appellation "weaker sex" was a misnomer.
Originally published in 1992, this revised paperback edition includes a new index.

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Marilyn Mayer Culpepper is the author of Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the American Civil War and All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of the Civil War. She is Professor Emerita at Michigan State University.

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Editorial
Michigan State University Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0870133683
ISBN 13 
9780870133688
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
449
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