{"product_id":"women-at-the-front-hospital-workers-in-civil-war-america","title":"Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs many as 20 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during Americas bloodiest war. Black and white  and from various social classes  these women served as nurses  administrators  matrons  seamstresses  cooks  laundresses  and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers  showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America  blurring the line between homefront and battlefront.  Schultz uses government records  private manuscripts  and published sources by and about women hospital workers  some of whom are familiar  such as Dorothea Dix  Clara Barton  Louisa May Alcott  and Sojourner Truth  but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women  Schultz considers who they were  how they became involved in wartime hospital work  how they adjusted to it  and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class  race  and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers  both black and white  but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves.  Schultz also explores the womens postwar lives  their professional and domestic choices  their pursuit of pensions  and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work  and their extremely varied postwar experiences  Schultz argues  defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism  triumphalism  or conciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985177079861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807858196","price":29.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807858196.jpg?v=1770850545","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/women-at-the-front-hospital-workers-in-civil-war-america","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}