Documents Women: Role and Effects Kitty Adair. Background ●ideal women were homemakers o private, feminized....

Slide 1 Women: Role and Effects Kitty Adair Slide 2 Background ●ideal women were homemakers o private, feminized domestic sphere o “True women” devoted lives to creating…

Documents Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Most women worked as nurses,....

Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Most women worked as nurses, cooks, laundresses and clerks. A womanâs main job was to look after the…

Documents Women in the Civil War

Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Most women worked as nurses, cooks, laundresses and clerks. A womanâs main job was to look after the…