| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. By Jane E. Schultz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xvi, 360 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2867-X.)

Jane E. Schultz argues in her recent work Women at the Front that, while women as spies or cross-dressing soldiers may have once again captured popular attention, the army of relief workers who labored for millions of hours alongside soldiers in Civil War hospitals created greater change in public attitudes toward gender conventions at the time. In her meticulously researched, clearly reasoned, and engagingly written account, Schultz takes us into the world of the Civil War hospital worker, in all of its gender, race, class, and regional complexity. In the process we come to understand the war better as framed by the hospital as well as the military front. Here not only were soldier's battles fought and lost, but gender, class, and regional wars ensued among hospital workers as well. While elite women nurses fought surgeons, these same women nurses exercised their class and race privilege in relation to black and working-class laundresses. While nurses of the North and the South nursed the men of their region with heartfelt devotion, they at times declined to nurse the enemy with the same conviction.

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