TY  - BOOK
AU  - Handley-Cousins,Sarah
TI  - Bodies in blue: disability in the Civil War north 
T2  - Uncivil wars
SN  - 9780820355191
AV  - E621 .H324 2019eb
U1  - 305.9/08097309034 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Disabled veterans
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Invalides de guerre
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Masculinité
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Sezessionskrieg
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - gnd
KW  - Verwundung
KW  - Behinderung
KW  - Kriegsopfer
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
KW  - Anciens combattants
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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