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A study of the sexual activities of Civil War soldiers away from home relates their participation in prostitution, birth control, marriages, homosexuality, pornography, and others as revealed in letters, diaries, a… More >>
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War
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Lowrey serves up a meme for the cross-cultural diffusion that the Civil War initiated. The mid-nineteenth century mores, typically but wrongly labeled Victorian were indeed a clash of frottage and frontier fleshiness. The sexualt landscape changed as much as the topography Hotchkiss mapped for Stonewall as the West pushed west. The crinloines dropped, rustling to the floor like a immigrant Irish washlady bent over a tub of hot soapy lye–slippery, warm and bubbly, yet acrid and stinging in the afternmath. In the post Emancipation glow, and before sufffarage, were things all tht different? One thinks not, yet ones gaze lingers longingly on the tattos, pierced navel and tongue of a sophmore Honors Lit. student and wonders what 1865 had wrought. Excuse me, I’ll be right back.
Rating: 5 / 5
All of the other reviewers are correct. This is a fine book with a few holes…but…where, I ask you, are the books on this subject matter that we can compare? There are, simply out, none. And in that vein, I am very impressed. My advice? Buy it, and read slowly…savor the details and the lucid writing. Hear, in your mind, Dr. Lowry reading this to you across a coffee table or a campfire. Marvelous writing that really speaks! And remember, read slowly – this is the only book of it’s kind.
Now, the REAL VALUE here is not as a civil war reference (and I find useless those trivia bugs who dwell on which way the wind blew at 4:45am on the first day of Bull Run). This is not the point, nor the issue.
Please understand that Dr. Lowry has illustrated, in a way that can be deduced by the wise reader, the sexual mores of the United States for the last 200 years. What he has done is show that our conservative fear of sex in the last 50 years, like the drug wars, is completely irrational and not at all in keeping with our national history and ethnic makeup.
Dr. Lowry has produced a telling record that shows that we are not the prim and proper Americans that we pretend to be as we decry teen sex, homosexuality and AIDS.
This is a book to buy and share. ‘Please Sir, can I have some more?’
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is more than Civil War history, but also a social history of pre and post Civil War America. The chapters are a bit scattered, but the content is intriguing. Not neccessarily scholarly, but interesting history just the same.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book would make an excellent source for an author who writes about the Civil War era. It is very well documented and even includes some interesting photos. It would interest anyone who enjoys reading about the things that people didn’t used to talk openly about.
Rating: 3 / 5
Lowry’s book, tackles the unmentionable subject,the admission that the men fighting on blood soaked ground, standing up for the preservation of the Union, valiantly carrying on duties given, were also just men. Normal and some abnormal sex drives were not only present but quite commonplace. I applaud the audacity of a novelist to brave the ridicule and chastizing to come forth with an important novel such as this. Yes, rape, homosexuality, prostitution ran wild during the war years, but the point Lowry attempts to make is, does it really cloud the memories of the time? In a way yes, but the life although more primitive, we must allow for the carnal desires of all not to be made feel ashamed, even in those that lived 150+ years before us when the subject was not spoken of. I found all of the chapters fascinating and overflowing with interesting facts. A different take on the Civil war, but a necessary one. Great reading, and highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5