The Civil War as a crisis in gender
Subtitle: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890
By: LeeAnn Whites.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Women -- Georgia -- Augusta -- History -- 19th century.; Elite (Social sciences) -- Georgia -- Augusta -- History -- 19th century.; Sex role -- Georgia -- Augusta -- History -- 19th century.; Man-woman relationships -- Georgia -- Augusta -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.; Augusta (Ga.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Description: 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 the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat.

Whites's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge our understanding of the war and our acceptance of its historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-266) and index.