eBook Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) download

Worth a Dozen Men: Women. has been added to your Cart. The book concludes by saying that women's performance in the field of nursing during the civil war promoted positions of authority in the state governments to follow so as to affect the reconstruction period outcome.

Worth a Dozen Men: Women. If that's a valid analysis it must be justified in another book. It's not in this one. It's a valuable reference for someone specializing in the topic, rather tedious for general interest reading. 4 people found this helpful.

Worth a Dozen Men book. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History (1 - 10 of 32 books) No trivia or quizzes yet. Female nurses in the South played a critical role in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates, thus allowing the South to continue fighting. They embodied a new model of heroic energy and nationalism, and came to be seen as the female equivalent of soldiers.

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and . Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. The Civil War transformed American life.

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath.

Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Er.

Published by: University of Virginia Press. As the Civil War quickly became a more protracted and engulfing conflict than most Americans had predicted, the scope of the medical emergency led to extensive civilian involvement in medical care.

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. However, they were expected to exercise their talents only in the home; nursing strange men in hospitals was considered inappropriate, if not indecent. Nevertheless, in defiance of tradition, Confederate women set up hospitals early in the Civil War and organized volunteers to care for the increasing number of sick and wounded soldiers.

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012 . The author of this work expands an area of study on the American Civil War during the -year remembrance of the conflict that could have destroyed the young Republic or given it a new birth. Many more matrons and nurses are identified in this study than previously recognized in the nursing historical literature. Early in the war, women established private hospitals until the Confederate government organized care for the wounded and set up government hospitals.

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Civil War United States History Books. 9780813932125 Worth a Dozen Men. Specifications. Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Worth a Dozen Men : Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. This button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out. Tell us if something is incorrect. Publisher. University of Virginia Press.

Libra Rose Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. S. Emma E. Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and. Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battlefields (2000)

Libra Rose Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. Sarah E. Gardner, Blood & Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 (2003). Carolyn Johnston, Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War and Allotment, 1838-1907 (2003). Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battlefields (2000). Catherine Clinton, Public Women and the Confederacy (1999). Belle Boyd, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (1865).

Women in the Civil War faced many different challenges, each of these books touch on similar challenges as well as different views on these challenges. Women had to endure more than just the actual caring of wounded soldiers, other aspects that they had to deal with involved class, race, and gaining political rights which separated them from the men that they were aiding as well as working under