Title: The Civil War as a crisis in gender
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Social aspects, Augusta (Ga.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Elite (Social sciences), Sex role, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Women, History, Sex differences, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Places: Augusta, Augusta (Ga.), Georgia, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: HQ1439.A94 W5 1995