Women¿s War Av Stephanie Mccurry

Winner of the PEN Oakland¿Josephine Miles Award¿A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.¿¿David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass¿Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers¿ brows will not find them here¿Explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the sidelines.¿¿Washington PostThe idea that women are outside of war is a powerful myth, one that shaped the Civil War and still determines how we write about it today. Through three dramatic stories that span the war, Stephanie McCurry invites us to see America¿s bloodiest conflict for what it was: not just a brothers¿ war but a women¿s war. When Union soldiers faced the unexpected threat of female partisans, saboteurs, and spies, long held assumptions about the innocence of enemy women were suddenly thrown into question. McCurry shows how the case of Clara Judd, imprisoned for treason, transformed the writing of Lieber¿s Code, leading to lasting changes in the laws of war.