Download or read book Gender and the Sectional Conflict written by Nina Silber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource offers a comparative approach to gender across the North-South divide. In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and feminity among Northerners and Southerners.