How did gender roles change during the American Civil War in the Confederacy?

Historian Drew Faust tells us that as a result of the war's experience "almost all" white women of the Confederacy "looked upon themselves and their femininity with new eyes". "Womanhood gradually came to seem less like a physical part of one's body and more like a dress one could alter or even change." Does anyone feel like this is true or false, and why? I have to write a paper about it, and I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree with the claim.