| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeanie Attie. Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. Pp. xiii, 294. $37.50.

Despite a somewhat misleading title, this book makes a singular contribution to the growing body of historical literature on the U.S. Civil War and its effect on gender relations. Jeanie Attie considers the women who participated in the massive soldier relief effort in the northern states during the Civil War, although her book is less about the changes experienced by women themselves and more about the tense relationship between those women and the male leadership of the Union's main relief organization, the United States Sanitary Commission. In this sense, this is not so much a book about "northern women and the Civil War" as it is a study of conflicting notions about gender which were exposed by wartime relief work. . . .

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