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  title info:
    title: Bodies in blue
    sub title: disability in the Civil War north
  title info:
    title: Physical wreck of his former self
  name:
    name part: Handley-Cousins, Sarah
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Disabled soldiers and veterans occupied a difficult space in the Civil War North. The realities of living with a disability were ever at odds with the expectations of manhood. Disability made it difficult for soldiers to adhere to the particular masculine standards of the Union Army, yet when soldiers were able to control their bodies in order to fit manly ideals, they were met with suspicion when they requested accommodation or support. The very definition of masculine disability was ever in dispute as soldiers, physicians, lawmakers, bureaucrats and civilians each questioned what made a war wound authentic. Further, they each pondered what role disabled soldiers should play, whether in the course of war, in the progression of medicine, or in Gilded Age politics. It is in this tension, between the demands of masculinity and the realities of disability, that we can see the murkier undercurrent of the history of disabled Civil War veterans, that even when surrounded by the triumphant cheers and sentimental sighs that praised war wounds as patriotic sacrifices, disabled Union veterans faced enormous difficulty as they negotiated a life spent walking the fine line between manliness and emasculation. Sarah Handley-Cousins's manuscript makes an important contribution to the burgeoning field of the Civil War veteran experience, Civil War medicine, masculinity and the soldier transition to civilian life. She breaks new ground with her focus on invisible wounds, as most scholars have concentrated on amputees.
  table of contents: Gather the invalids -- Army of the walking sick -- The United States government is entitled to all of you -- The disabled lion of Union -- Man or mercenary -- The long, long years of misery.
  note: Sarah Handley-Cousins.
  note: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016, titled "A physical wreck of his former self" : gender and disability in the post Civil War north.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Disabled veterans
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Veterans
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: E621 .H324 2019
  classification: 305.9/08097309034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Uncivil wars
  identifier: 9780820355184
  identifier: 0820355186
  identifier: 9780820355191
  identifier: 2018049579
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181101
    record change date: 20200117104301.0
    record identifier: in00004173431