McPherson, Tara

Reconstructing Dixie : Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

Acknowledgments ix Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1(38) Romancing the South: A Tour of the Lady's Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39(56) ``Both Kinds of Arms'': The Civil War in the Present 95(54) Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149(56) Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205(52) Notes 257(36) Bibliography 293(18) Index 311