Paul marshal cardoz biography of abraham lincoln
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Cayla Regas, Rebecca Jo Plant, and Frances M. Clarke
Spring 2023
Scholars of women's history in the United States have devoted much attention to ways in which the experience of war has influenced gender ideology and expanded women's assigned roles. Because warfare inevitably leads to losses in the male-dominated workforce, while simultaneously creating new demands for non-combatant labor, women are often called upon to shoulder new and unfamiliar responsibilities. "Wartime presents many perplexities," political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain has observed, "for women often engage in tasks recently denied them as they enter occupations previously closed to them and take risks from which they have been protected."[1] Perhaps the best known example of this dynamic occurred during World War II, when the celebrated icon Rosie the Riveter helped to legitimize women war workers who took industrial jobs previously reserved for men.
But even in regard to the Civil War, which witnessed less far-reaching challenges to the gendered order,