Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South /

Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McPherson, Tara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Popular culture > Southern States.
Sex role > Southern States.
Nostalgia > Southern States.
Romanticism > Southern States.
Southern States > Civilization.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Table of Contents:
  • Romancing the South : a tour of the lady's legacies, academic and otherwise
  • "Both kinds of arms" : the Civil War in the present
  • Steel magnolias, fatal flowers, and designing women : on the limits of a politics of femininity in the Sun Belt South
  • Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity.