Yankee women
Subtitle: gender battles in the Civil War
By: Elizabeth D. Leonard.
Edition: Norton paperback ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780393313727
Subjects: Bucklin, Sophronia E; Wittenmyer, Annie, -- 1827-1900; Walker, Mary Edwards, -- 1832-1919; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: "No place for woman"? : Sophronia Bucklin and Civil War nursing; title: "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid; title: "A thing that nothing but the depraved Yankee nation could produce" : Mary Walker, M.D. and the limits of tolerance; title: The women and the storytellers after the War.