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Author McPherson, Tara, author.

Title Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South / Tara McPherson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary A cultural studies reading of white southern femininity as seen in a range of popular sites including novels, television, and tourist attractions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index
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Subject Popular culture -- Southern States
Sex role -- Southern States
Nostalgia -- Southern States
Romanticism -- Southern States
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Civilization
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Nostalgia
Popular culture
Race relations
Romanticism
Sex role
Social conditions
Literatur
Ethnische Beziehungen
Geschlechterverhältnis
Etnische betrekkingen.
Sekserol.
Heimwee.
Culture populaire -- États-Unis (sud)
Romantisme -- États-Unis (sud)
SUBJECT Southern States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635
Southern States -- Race relations
Southern States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125661
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140242
Subject Southern States
United States
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822384625
0822384620