Article Title
“What the Women of Maine Have Done”: Women’s Wartime Work and Postwar Activism, 1860-1875
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Document Type
Article
First Page
86
Last Page
109
Abstract
Maine women had been active in reform movements during the antebellum era. They joined mother’s associations, temperance groups, abolitionist societies, and woman suffrage organizations. Although the Civil War did not create activists, it did strengthen them, while opening the door for other women to become activists. The war provided an unprecedented opportunity for the women of Maine to be actors in the public sphere. Postwar women’s movements in Maine were therefore fueled by their agency on the home front during the war. The author is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, working under the supervision of Dr. Mary Hough. In 2007, she received her master’s degree in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College, where her research centered on how Betty Ford refocused the American perspective on the First Ladyship. Her current work at the University of Maine examines the sources of influence on the First Lady, and the nature of power and politics
Recommended Citation
Rude, Lisa Marie. "“What the Women of Maine Have Done”: Women’s Wartime Work and Postwar Activism, 1860-1875." Maine History 48, 1 (2014): 86-109. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol48/iss1/5