Title: Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South /
Authors: McPherson, Tara.
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 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 Influence.
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.