Battle Scars Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War [Paperback]

Over a decade ago, the publication ofDivided Housesushered in a new field of scholarship on gender and the Civil War. Following in its wake,Battle Scarsshowcases insights from award-winning historians as well as emerging scholars. This volume depicts the ways in which gender, race, nationalism, religion, literary culture, sexual mores, and even epidemiology underwent radical transformations from when Americans went to war in 1861 through Reconstruction. Examining the interplay among such phenomena as racial stereotypes, sexual violence, trauma, and notions of masculinity,Battle Scarsrepresents the best new scholarship on men and women in the North and South and highlights how lives were transformed by this era of tumultuous change.

No historians have done more to broaden our understanding of the Civil War than Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber. In this new volume, they stretch the boundaries yet again, introducing us to new voices, new subjects, and new ways of looking at old topics. Everyone interested in this central drama of American history should be grateful. --Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia

Civil War historians are already in debt to Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber for their groundbreaking collectionDivided Houses. This is most assuredly another 'must read' for anyone seeking fresh and fascinating insight into the Civil War and its lasting aftermath. --Lesley J. Gordon, co-editor ofIntimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives

Catherine Clintonis a historian and the author of many titles, includingHarriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.

Nina Silberis Associate Professor of History at Boston University and the author, most recently, ofDaughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. They co-editedDivided Houses: Gender and the Civil War(OUP, 1992).