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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 13, Gender / Nancy Bercaw and Ted Ownby, volume editors.

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Book
Contributor:
Bercaw, Nancy.
Ownby, Ted.
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex role--Southern States--Encyclopedias.
Feminism.
Women.
History.
Civilization.
Social conditions.
Sex role.
Southern States--Social conditions--Encyclopedias.
Southern States--Civilization--Encyclopedias.
Women--Southern States--History--Encyclopedias.
Feminism--Southern States--Encyclopedias.
Popular culture--Southern States--Encyclopedias.
Popular culture.
Southern States.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 387 pages) : illustrations
Other Title:
Gender
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Summary:
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender. The wide range of entries explores how people have experienced, understood, and used concepts of womanhood and manhood in all sorts of obvious and subtle ways.
The volume features 113 articles, 65 of which are entirely new for this edition. Thematic articles address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism and investigate the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music, and sports. Topical entries highlight individuals such as Oprah Winfrey, the Grimke sisters, and Dale Earnhardt, as well as historical events such as the capture of Jefferson Davis in a woman's dress, the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia, and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, with its slogan, "I AM A MAN." Bringing together scholarship on gender and the body, sexuality, labor, race, and politics, this volume offers new ways to view big questions in southern history and culture.
Contents:
Abortion
Agriculture, women and
Antimiscegenation laws
Appalachian men and women
Autobiography
Beauty, cult of
Beauty shops and barbershops
Belles and ladies
Blues
Bubba, image of
Childbirth, antebellum
Child-rearing customs
Citizenship
Civil Rights
Civil War
Clubs and voluntary organizations
Country music
Dissemblance, culture of
Education
Emancipation
Family
Family, Black
Family dynasties
Family reunions
Fatherhood
Feminism and antifeminism
Food and cooking
Food and markets
Gays
Good old boys and girls
Healers, women
Health
Honor
Humor
Hunting
Independence, manly
Indian men and women
Industrial work
Ladies and gentlemen
Latino men and women
Lynching
Maiden aunt
Mammy
Marriage and courtship
Matriarchy, myth of
Miscegenation
Motherhood
Movie images and stereotypes
NASCAR and masculinity
Paternalism
Photography
Politics, women in, 1700s to 1920
Politics, women in, 1920s to present
Poverty
Rape
Religious organizations
Respectability, politics of
Segregation and desegregation
Servants and housekeepers
Sex roles in literature
Sexuality
Single mothers
Slavery
Sports
Suffrage and antisuffrage
Visiting
Womanism
Workers' wives
Ali, Muhammad
Ames, Jessie Daniel
Atkinson, Ti-Grace
Baker, Ella Jo
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Boggs, Lindy
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins
Burroughs, Nannie Helen
Carter, Rosalynn
Chestnut, Mary Boykin
Conroy, Pat
Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood
Davis, Jefferson, capture of
Designing women
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
Earnhardt, Dale
Edelman, Marian Wright
Felton, Rebecca Latimer
Gibbons, Kaye
Grimké́ Sisters
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Home Extension Services
"I am a man"
Jordan, Barbara
Loving v. Virginia
Lumpkin, Katherine Du Pre
Lynn, Loretta
McCord, Louisa
Moon, Charlotte Digges "Lottie"
Moynihan Report
National Association of Colored Women
Newcomb, Josephine
Pringle, Elizabeth Allston
Prostitution (New Orleans)
Richards, Ann
Scottsboro Boys
Smith, Lillian
Terrell, Mary Church
Uncle Tom
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Walker, Alice
Walker, Maggie Lena
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
Winfrey, Oprah.
Notes:
"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Gender
ISBN:
9781469616728
1469616726
OCLC:
864900204
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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