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Redneck mothers, good ol' girls, and other Southern belles : a celebration of the women of Dixie / by Sharon McKern.
LIBRA HQ1438.A13 M34 1979
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKern, Sharon S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Southern States--Biography.
- Self-perception in women--Southern States.
- Self-perception in women.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 268 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- Views of the modern Southern woman which never underestimate the influence of two hundred years of traditions about what it means to be a woman, a Southerner, and, most specially, a Southern woman.
- Contents:
- True grits & cracker power: new strains of Scarlett fever
- To a manner born: growing up eccentric
- Country sweet: Thoreau-backs & trailblazers
- Amazing Grace (& Betty & Louise): evangelism in the provincial South
- Rhinestone cowgirls: bright lights & country music
- Small-town mamas, up-town grit: the sweet revenge of Aunt Jemima
- Tough hides, tender hearts: the happy decline of derivative glory
- Southern comport: honky-tonk heroines & rebel queens
- Homegrown & grafted hybrids: bumper crops from yesterday's garden
- Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McKern, Sharon S. Redneck mothers, good ol' girls, and other Southern belles.
- ISBN:
- 0670592498 :
- 9780670592494
- OCLC:
- 4136470
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