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Many women were the wives and mothers of soldiers, some of whom never returned from war, as well as carrying out other wartime activities such as nursing. Use the sources in this lesson to...
Jul 30, 2021 · A 17th-century recruitment pamphlet shows a woman encouraging her husband to fight, but growing evidence suggests some women also took up arms during the English Civil War.
- Jenny Elliott
Jan 25, 2013 · The outbreak of the Civil War challenged traditional American notions of feminine submissiveness and domesticity with hundreds of examples of courage, diligence, and self-sacrifice in battle. The war was a formative moment in the early feminist movement.
Feb 5, 2010 · The American Civil War challenged the ideology of Victorian domesticity and prompted women on both sides to get involved as nurses, fundraisers and soldiers.
Feb 19, 2013 · Women who fought in the Civil War as male soldiers flouted the societal ideal of a mid-19 th century woman by using skills such as physical strength, intelligence and bravery—traits that were rarely associated with femininity at the time.
Historians have credited women for their immense contributions during the Civil War, but an important category of women was traditionally ignored: women who took up arms and joined the Union and Confederate armies, disguised as men, to fight in the war. During the war, women on the home front stepped up by taking over farms, running
Nov 16, 2021 · In this meticulously researched study, Thavolia Glymph unearths the voices and experiences of women during the American Civil War to show the different dimensions of war and the conflicts that entangled their lives with the battle to preserve the Union and end slavery.
