Title: Patriotic toil
First published: 1998
Description: During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization to ensure that women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. After years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic.

Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labor on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political rights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence.
Subjects: Health aspects, History, Sanitary affairs, United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States Sanitary Commission, United States. Army, Women, Onbetaalde arbeid, USA, Nordstaaten, Amerikaanse burgeroorlog, USA Sanitary Commission, Thuiswerk, Vrouwen, Frau, Sezessionskrieg, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, Vaderlandsliefde, Gelijke rechten, Armed Forces, United states, army, sanitary affairs, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, women, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, health aspects, Women, united states, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E628 .A87 1998