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

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Main Author:	McPherson, Tara
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Southern States > Civilization. Popular culture > Southern States. Southern States > Race relations. Sex role > Southern States. Southern States > Social conditions. Nostalgia > Southern States. Romanticism > Southern States. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.

Table of 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.