Busy Hands

Busy Hands
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0823223000
ISBN-13 : 9780823223008
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Book Synopsis Busy Hands by : Patricia L. Richard

Download or read book Busy Hands written by Patricia L. Richard and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men's postwar civilian fitness. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of Civil War nurses, sanitary workers, soldiers, and the soldiers' aid societies, Richard develops a new perspective on domestic influence on the war, as women sought to save soldiers from the dangers of the military world.


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