Book: Women’s War Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War by Stephanie McCurry
Answer the Following Questions:
1.What is McCurrys main argument?
2.Why have other scholars ignored the influence of women in war and how does McCurry
demonstrate their importance to fully understanding this history?
3.How did the actions of Confederate women affect the development of international war law? Think
about the intersection of gender and citizenship and how the debates changed over the course of
the war.
4.Discuss the transformation of enslaved women to soldiers wives. Think the about the importance
of (coverture) marriage as a political foundation for the United States and its impact on war policy.
5.Describe Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas experience with Reconstruction. How did she (or how did
she not) reckon with major structural changes to the southern way of life?
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