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Gender matters

by LeeAnn Whites

HistoryPolitics and governmentReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Sex roleSocial aspectsSocial conditionsUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Women

'Gender Matters' offers a new reading of the history of the South through the 19th century from the perspective of gender, exploring the role of gender in the secession and the civil war, in the racial tensions that persisted after the war & in the classtensions in the postwar textile industry.

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