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Fall, 2007
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REVIEWS

SECTION 4
WOMEN AND MEN

Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South. By LeeAnn Whites (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vii plus 244 pp. cloth $75.00, paper $24.95).
The title, Gender Matters, indicates both the topics addressed in and the point of view of LeeAnn Whites's eleven essays, many of which have been previously published. Over the last twenty-five years Whites has pioneered the exploration of gender's importance in the Civil War and late nineteenth century South. From her early essays on labor to more recent ones on women's roles in commemorative exercises, Whites has consistently produced excellent, provocative pieces that argue the importance of gendered history. Because so much of her work has centered on gender's role in major social changes in nineteenthcentury Georgia or Missouri, these articles cohere far better than most collections. 1
      The opening article reprises major themes from the author's fine monograph on Augusta, Georgia, in the CivilWar.1 In this essay, she explores slavery's effect on southern black and white families and describes the impact of the CivilWar on black and white families. In the author's view, the social upheaval of the war wounded but could not destroy southern patriarchy. The planter class "was defeated ... not vanquished" (p. 24), and privileged women more resented their class losses than they appreciated possible changes in gender roles. . . .
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