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Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out: Northern Women and the Written War --
Ch. 1. Rowing against Wind and Tide: How Women Wrote. Wind and Tide: The Obstacles and Inspiration of Political Work. Nine Rowers. New England Mothers: Introducing Child, Stowe, and Fern. Northern Borders: Introducing Southworth, Harper, and Davis. New England Daughters: Introducing Hamilton, Alcott, and Phelps --
Ch. 2. Raising a Voice: The Civil War Begins in the 1850s. Stowe and Southworth: Slavery and the Proper Work of White Women. Fern and Oakes: Independent versus Influential Womanhood. Child versus Wise and Mason: Speaking for the North. Jacobs and Davis: The Web of Racial and Wage Slavery --
Ch. 3. What Can Woman Do?: The Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863. What Women Did. Leave-Taking and Waiting: Early Stories of Patriotism. A Woman-Centered Understanding of War: Delphine P. Baker and Metta V. Victor. The Voice of Tribulation Periwinkle: Introducing Women-Nurses. Political Work through Moral Suasion: Abolitionists Speak Out --
Ch. 4. A Woman's Read: Crisis at Midwar. Economic Struggle and Wartime Disillusionment. To Upheave and Overturn: Gail Hamilton Goes to War. Class Is Another War: Fern, Townsend, and Davis --
Ch. 5. Trying to Find Places: The Question of African American Freedom in the Late War. The Context. Emancipation Rhetoric and Fanny Kemble's Journal: The War Turns a Corner. He Is Every Where: Antislavery at Midwar. A Shifting Subject: African American Men. What Will We Do with the Negro? Wartime Strategies for Reconstruction --
Ch. 6. Woman's Part of Glory: Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865. Woman's Place in War: Women-Nurses. Women on the Fictional Battlefront. A Place for a Woman: Nurses Make Their Way. A Crisis of Faith: An Internal Critique --
Ch. 7. The Times Which Form History: Writing the War, 1865-1868. Writing Women and the War: Transitions. Women's Histories: Reinscribing the "Universal" Woman for Posterity. Nursing Histories: Women's Authority and Class Conflict. A Woman's War: Postwar Novels and Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth's: How He Won Her --
Ch. 8. Still Waiting: Race and the Politics of Reconstruction. Emphasizing Difference: Racial Whiteness in Postwar Fiction. An Africanist Presence. The Politics of Intermarriage. Turning Points --
Ch. 9. A New Emancipation: Interpreting the War for Tomorrow. A Call for Women. The "Coming Woman": Alcott and the Woman Question. Woman As a Class: Phelps and the Labor Question. The Threshold of a New Era: Harper and the Negro Question. |
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