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Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War
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Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. By Nina Silber. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [x], 332. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01677-7.)
Like their Confederate sisters, northern women immersed themselves in the patriotic fervor of the Civil War era, finding new opportunities in wage-earning work, war relief effort associations, and hospitals. Nina Silber's examination of Union women on the home front demonstrates that this new world of civic...
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Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History
; Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. By Nina Silber. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. [x], 332. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01677-7.) Like their Confederate sisters, northern women immersed themselves in the patriotic fervor of the Civil War era,
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Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War
Nursing History Review
; Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War By Nina Silber (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) (332 pages; $29.95 paper) Wars have always temporarily or permanently changed the roles of women who lived through their destructive forces. Nina Silber, in a detailed
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Northern women plan to showcase talent
Ontario Birchbark
; THUNDER BAY -- There will be a lot more than thunder heard on the shores of Thunder Bay during the first Thundering Women Festival that will take place June 25 to 27 at Chippewa Park. Hosted by PARO (a Northwestern Ontario women's community loan fund), the festival is expected to draw hundreds of
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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History.
The Nation
; In this year of the woman, Anne Firor Scott's book comes as a reminder that women have never been absent from politics, even though only a handful of them have served in the House and the Senate. In Natural Allies Scott documents the astonishing array of women's activities over a 200-year period,
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The Vatican boys club gangs up on women
New Haven Register
; "Eve was framed!" That bumper-sticker slogan gave us a welcome giggle when we first saw it, but now it seems an important rallying cry in response to a letter from the Vatican attacking feminism. Who knew that women's quest for equality from "biological determinism" has brought about everything
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Women: Politics and Leadership
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
; THE WOMEN'S Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) held a joint panel on April 3 with the Dialogue Project of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) titled: "The Politics of Participation: Women and Transformative Leadership." Introductory
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Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before 1940.(Book Review)
Northern Review
; ... Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series 27. 248 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. CA$ 27.95. ISBN 0-7735-2292-1. Kelcey provides an overview of European women's experiences in the ...
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Women on antidepressants may benefit from Viagra
Charleston Gazette
; CHICAGO - Viagra's effect in women has been disappointing, but a new small study finds those on antidepressants may benefit from taking the little blue pills. The research involving 98 premenopausal women found Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did not extend to other aspects of sex such
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Economy has women leaving the workplace.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot
; By Louis Uchitelle The New York Times Across the country, women in their prime earning years, struggling with an unfriendly economy, are retreating from the work force, either permanently or for long stretches. Women had piled into jobs in growing numbers since the 1960s, but that stopped happening
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Hearts and Hands: Women, Quilts, and American Society
Journal of American Folklore
; Hearts and Hands: Women, Quilts, and American Society. By Elaine Hedges, Pat Ferrero, and Julie Silber. (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996. Pp. 97, preface, 87 illustrations, reference list, index.) SUSAN GOODIER-KALAF State University of New York at Albany Hearts and Hands: Women, Quilts, and
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