The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 13) (v. 13)

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. Content: 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. This volume of 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--thematic articles address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism; 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 and the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia Volume 2: Geography. This volume addresses general topics of cultural geographic interest, such as Appalachia, exiles and expatriates, Latino and Jewish populations, migration patterns, and the profound Disneyfication of central Florida. Entries with a more concentrated focus examine major cities, such as Atlanta, New Orleans, and Memphis; the influence of black and white southern migrants on northern cities; and individual subregions, such as the Piedmont, Piney Woods, Tidewater, and Delta. Putting together the disparate pieces that make up the place called "the South," this volume sets the scene for the discussions in all the other volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 1: Religion. In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South Volume 3: History. this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, major economic transformations, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order Volume 4: Myth, manners, and memory. This volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice