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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Southern women"”.
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… of ugly female characters in the work of southern women calls into question what W. J. Cash termed “gyneolatry,” the worship of the beautiful white woman upon which so much of southern ideology has been based. If the South functions as an internal other for the nation, then examining this …
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Well I'll Be: Positive Images Of Southern Women As Response To Feminism From 1980-2000
This thesis examines the role images of southern women play in understanding the feminist movement from 1980 to 2000. By closely analyzing several media forms, from television to self-help books, it becomes apparent that the function of the southern woman is often to either soften the blow of …
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Honor and the Southern lady: The persitence of antebellum ideology among elite Southern women, 1820-1877
Honor and the Southern Lady: The Persistence of Antebellum Ideology Among Elite Southern Women, 1820-1877 investigates whether the war permanently changed elite white women's legal, economic and social status, gender relations and race relations. Southern honor and slavery were the social and …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
… and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap principle in regard to tattooing would mean that tattooed people would be …
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Arranging Stories: The Implications of Narrative Decision in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers, 1894-1944
Southern writer Ellen Glasgow once told an audience that “the longer one lives in this world of hazard and disaster, the more reckless one should become . . . in the matter of words.” Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern women writers like Glasgow increased dramatically, …
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The wages of fear: How gender, ideology, and symbolic threat influenced the voting behaviors of white southern women in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections
… threat predict the voting behaviors of white southern women; whether these decisions influence political affiliation of partners/spouses/family; and whether threat is weaponized to influence voting behaviors. This study uses three sources of data: the 2016 ANES Time Series Study, the 2020 Time …
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Politics From the Pedestal: Modernity, Cultural Intervention, and the Myth of *Southern Womanhood, 1920--1945
How has the myth of Southern Womanhood been central to white southern women writers who had strong roots in plantation culture? What did white southern women writers contribute to the emergence of the Southern (literary) Renaissance around 1920? How did these writers respond to the mass northern …
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Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85
… Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward …
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Women of the Mere: stories
Women of the Mere is a literary-horror short story collection imagining contemporary, Southern women who have a draw toward the unpredictability and danger of the macabre. Based on personal experiences but fictionalized through the poetic lens of negative capability, each story takes place in …
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A Requiem to Departed Days: The Transformation and Retrenchment of Planter-Class Women in Georgia
<p>During the American Civil War, elite Southern women were required to step outside their traditional role as the protected gender in order to take on responsibilities like supporting Confederate troops, maintaining and operating plantations, supervising slaves, and providing for their families. …
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The Real and the Ideal: Margaret Junkin Preston and Woman's Increasing Role in the Culture of the South, 1820--1897
… nineteenth century. In particular, it analyzes women's increasing participation in the cultural life of the South. It concludes that Confederate nationalism provided southern women with the opportunity to expand their place during the Civil War, and that these women maintained their new …
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The Journal of Elizabeth Maxwell Alsop Wynne, 1862-1878
The experiences of Southern women during the American Civil War are often represented through the publication of their journals, diaries, and memoirs. This project consists of the transcription and annotation of the journal of Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Maxwell Alsop Wynne, written from March 4, 1862, …
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Being Nice is Lethal: Disciplining and Subverting Southern Femininity in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture
<p>This thesis focuses on the performance of southern femininity in contemporary southern popular culture, specifically prescriptive literature and reality television. Both texts provide valuable insight into how southern femininity is disciplined and subverted by individual women and the public. …
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"For Country and For Home": Elite Richmond Women and Changing Southern Womanhood during the First World War
… of the First World War on elite white Richmond women's roles as southern women? This thesis argues that, while white southern women's roles had been changing since the Civil War, it was not until World War I that southern women's traditional roles were challenged by ideas of national patriotism …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… examines the literary works of the two Southern women writers, Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, based on the cultural contexts of the 1930s and the 1940s. It discusses how the two writers' works are in dialogue with each other, and with the particular historical period in …
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Advancing Community Detection through Ensemble Learning and Modularity Maximization
… of real-world bipartite networks, including the Southern Women network, an Asthma-Patient bipartite network, and a Psychological Item–Embedding Bipartite Network. Applying this to the Southern Women network, we show that for lower values of \(\chi\), \(Q_{bg}\) recovers the canonical partition …
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Occupying the Pedestal: Gender Issues in Ellen Gilchrist
<p>Ellen Gilchrist's works shows the struggles of women living in a postmodern South. This dissertation explores Gilchrist's representations of southern women as they transition from the old South to modernity. Gilchrist's work depicts women who attempt to break off the pedestal of white Southern …
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“Making The World A Better Place To Live In”: Hattiesburg Women’s Literary Organizations and the Formation of a Progressive Southern City, 1884-1945
… study examines the activity and impact of white women’s literary clubs in Hattiesburg, Mississippi between 1884 and the end of World War II in 1945. This project examines to what extent women adhered to or broke away from societal norms of the time by involving themselves in intellectually …
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Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing
… traces the origins and uses of a specifically southern obsession with the past. Examining how southern women writers represent the compulsion to remember, I demonstrate how, in their narratives, efforts to retain intimate relationships with an idealized past obstruct characters' ability to live …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… autobiographical writings by formerly poor white Southern women, who are rarely considered as a group and are more typically studied with “rough South” male writers, which would suggest that few women have contributed their own gendered experience to discussions of class, race, and sexuality …
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