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Author McPherson, Tara.

Title Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South / Tara McPherson.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F209 .M37 2003    Available  ---
Description xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.
Contents Romancing the South : 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 sunbelt South -- Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity.
Subject Popular culture -- Southern States.
Popular culture.
Southern States.
Sex role -- Southern States.
Sex role.
Nostalgia -- Southern States.
Nostalgia.
Romanticism -- Southern States.
Romanticism.
Southern States -- Civilization.
Civilization.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Gender roles.
ISBN 0822330407 paperback alkaline paper
0822330296 alkaline paper