Disarming the Nation
Women’s Writing and the American Civil War

- Contents

Introduction
Topsy-Turvy: Civil War and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A Wound of One’s Own: Louisa May Alcott’s Body Politic
Black Woman, White House: Race and Redress in Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes
Confederate Counterfeit: The Case of the Cross-Dressed Civil War Soldier
"Army of Civilizers": Frances Harper’s Warring Fictions
The Rhett and the Black: Sex and Race in Gone with the Wind
Afterword
History: American History
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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