Louisa May Alcott reveals the tension between white racism and abolition activism. These two often times went together according to the discussion in the lecture.

Louisa May Alcott's experiences show us that nurses were given only a few days of training before beginning their work.

Louisa May Alcott, like many of her peers, did not express her full emotions in her work and letters because emotions were not something people expressed readily in society.

Post Civil War there is a concerted effort to allow women into nursing because of their volunteer efforts during the war.

Louisa May Alcott writes to a national audience in her book in order to prove that the hospital is a place where women belong as a job--through humor, details, and romantic portrayals of duty.

Mary Edwards Walker was eagerly welcomed into the Civil War medical facilities as a medical surgeon.

Louisa May Alcott writes about wounded soldiers as child-like and in need of help. This was used to let women know they could do nursing.

Prewar groups working on reform in society were quickly turned into aid societies for the war.

Louisa May Alcott's work is intentionally trying to prove women can handle difficult moments and maintain self-control through her professional behavior and keeping her emotion in check.

Mary Edwards Walker wore skirts and crinolens in order to maintain appearances and not threaten male doctors.

Images of women used during the war attempted to portray the values of Domesticity.

Rape was used as a way to talk about Northern aggression.

War maintains society and norms.

Women's image and bodies were used to establish and shape understandings of the war.

The South's use of women's bodies and "the cause of women" reflected the reality of Southern life of both poor and elite.

Women waged food riots during the Civil War.