The political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out: Northern Women and the Written War	1
Ch. 1	Rowing against Wind and Tide: How Women Wrote	17
	Wind and Tide: The Obstacles and Inspiration of Political Work	22
	Nine Rowers	30
	New England Mothers: Introducing Child, Stowe, and Fern	32
	Northern Borders: Introducing Southworth, Harper, and Davis	37
	New England Daughters: Introducing Hamilton, Alcott, and Phelps	43
Ch. 2	Raising a Voice: The Civil War Begins in the 1850s	49
	Stowe and Southworth: Slavery and the Proper Work of White Women	52
	Fern and Oakes: Independent versus Influential Womanhood	57
	Child versus Wise and Mason: Speaking for the North	61
	Jacobs and Davis: The Web of Racial and Wage Slavery	66
Ch. 3	What Can Woman Do?: The Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863	75
	What Women Did	77
	Leave-Taking and Waiting: Early Stories of Patriotism	84
	A Woman-Centered Understanding of War: Delphine P. Baker and Metta V. Victor	90
	The Voice of Tribulation Periwinkle: Introducing Women-Nurses	96
	Political Work through Moral Suasion: Abolitionists Speak Out	99
Ch. 4	A Woman's Read: Crisis at Midwar	109
	Economic Struggle and Wartime Disillusionment	114
	To Upheave and Overturn: Gail Hamilton Goes to War	121
	Class Is Another War: Fern, Townsend, and Davis	133
Ch. 5	Trying to Find Places: The Question of African American Freedom in the Late War	141
	The Context	143
	Emancipation Rhetoric and Fanny Kemble's Journal: The War Turns a Corner	144
	He Is Every Where: Antislavery at Midwar	147
	A Shifting Subject: African American Men	151
	What Will We Do with the Negro? Wartime Strategies for Reconstruction	158
Ch. 6	Woman's Part of Glory: Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865	167
	Woman's Place in War: Women-Nurses	169
	Women on the Fictional Battlefront	173
	A Place for a Woman: Nurses Make Their Way	181
	A Crisis of Faith: An Internal Critique	184
Ch. 7	The Times Which Form History: Writing the War, 1865-1868	193
	Writing Women and the War: Transitions	197
	Women's Histories: Reinscribing the "Universal" Woman for Posterity	200
	Nursing Histories: Women's Authority and Class Conflict	204
	A Woman's War: Postwar Novels and Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth's: How He Won Her	216
Ch. 8	Still Waiting: Race and the Politics of Reconstruction	223
	Emphasizing Difference: Racial Whiteness in Postwar Fiction	226
	An Africanist Presence	231
	The Politics of Intermarriage	234
	Turning Points	240
Ch. 9	A New Emancipation: Interpreting the War for Tomorrow	245
	A Call for Women	248
	The "Coming Woman": Alcott and the Woman Question	254
	Woman As a Class: Phelps and the Labor Question	263
	The Threshold of a New Era: Harper and the Negro Question	270
	Conclusion	279
	Notes	283
	Bibliography	311
	Index	333