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020			_a9780393036664
020			_a0393036669
035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780393036664
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
082	0	4	_a973.715042 _223
100	1		_aLeonard, Elizabeth D.
245	1	0	_aYankee women : _bgender battles in the Civil War / _cElizabeth D. Leonard.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _c1994.
300			_a308 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn Yankee women: Gender Battles in the Civil War, Elizabeth Leonard portrays the multiple ways in which women dedicated themselves to the Union. By delving deeply into the lives of three women - Sophronia Bucklin, Annie Wittenmyer, and Mary Walker - Leonard brings to life the daily manifestations of women's wartime service. Bucklin traveled to the frontline hospitals to nurse the wounded and ill, bearing the hardships along with the men. Wittenmyer extended her antebellum charitable activities to organizing committees to supply goods for the troops in Iowa, setting up orphanages for the children of Union soldiers, and creating and managing special diet kitchens for the sick soldiers. Mary Walker forms her own unique category. A feminist and dress reformer, she became the only woman to sign a contract as a doctor for the Union forces. In hospitals and at the battlefront, she tended the wounded in her capacity as a physician and even endured imprisonment as a spy. . In their service to the Union, these women faced not only the normal privations of war but also other challenges that thwarted many of their efforts. Bucklin was more daring than some nurses in confronting those in charge if she felt she was being prevented from doing what was needed for the soldiers under her care. In her memoir, she recounted the frictions between the men and women supposedly toiling for a unified purpose. Wittenmyer, like other women in soldiers' aid, also had to stand up to male challengers.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 517; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aFemale Participation
650		4	_aHistory
650		4	_aMedical Care
650		4	_aParticipation, Female
650		4	_aUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865
650		4	_aWar Work
650		4	_aWomen
650		4	_aParticipation Des Femmes
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
999			_c505 _d505