The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 13, Gender / Nancy Bercaw and Ted Ownby, volume editors ; Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor.

"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso

One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989.

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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.

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