Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort

by Patricia Richard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823223000
• ISBN13: 9780823223008
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"