Gender and the Southern Body Politic
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1934110388
ISBN-13
9781934110386
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Imprint
University Press of Mississippi
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2007
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
History of the Americas20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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As Gender and the Southern Body Politic examines literature and art, labour and law, manhood and womanhood, the historians contributing to this volume argue that politics is not limited to the machinations of parties, candidates, and voters. Instead, they suggest that private matters -- family, home, and sexuality -- are integral to the construction of public power.
In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship has contributed to revising our understanding of politics and history. Expanding our definition of southern politics, a new generation of historians is challenging us to reconsider the most hallowed subjects in southern history—the origins of slavery, Bacon''s Rebellion, the Nullification crisis, the origins of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, Populism, and Jim Crow. Taking gender as a lens of analysis, these subjects are envisioned in a new light.
As Gender and the Southern Body Politic examines literature and art, labor and law, manhood and womanhood, the historians contributing to this volume argue that politics is not limited to the machinations of parties, candidates, and voters. Instead, they suggest that private matters—family, home, and sexuality—are integral to the construction of public power. Focusing on gender and ranging from the colonial period to the present, these essays explore the politics of
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