Women & Gender (II)
This is part II of our material devoted to explorations of Women and Gender. Part I is here.
Good Country People from Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina
by Linda Flowers
“If they didn’t yet work at the sewing plant or Hamilton-Beach, they kept up with ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘The Edge of Night,’ and they’d put supper on the table some nights out of a can.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 2000
The Twenty Most Influential Southerners of the Twentieth Century
by John Shelton Reed
“Unknown saints will have to get their reward in heaven, as usual.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2001
Driving Miss Daisy: Southern Jewishness on the Big Screen
by Eliza Russi Lowen McGraw
“‘Now, Miss Daisy, somebody done bomb that temple back yonder, and you know it.’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2001
Lucinda MacKethan, editor
Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County (review)
Allan Paul Speer, editor, with Janet Barton Speer
Sisters of Providence: The Search for God in the Frontier South, 1843-1858 (review)
Laura Edwards
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (review)
reviewed by Julia Ridley Smith
“The girls’ desire to leave a mark upon the world and make themselves heard is plaintive and constant throughout their writing.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2001
Shelly Romalis
Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong (review)
reviewed by Patrick Huber
“She boasted that she was the inspiration for the 1943 smash hit ‘Pistol Packin’ Mama’ written, she asserted, not by Al Dexter but by her husband’s cousin to commemorate her own handiness with a .38 Smith & Wesson.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2001
Through the Cumberland Gap
by Doris Betts
“For hours I would practice in front of a mirror that trick of merely narrowing both eyes with anger, a tiny movement sure to strike terror into crooked card players and rustlers.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2002
Thunder and A Southern Rhetoric
by Cathy Smith Bowers
“ . . . the land is long given up for dead
and farmers have disinherited the sky. . .”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2002
Charline Arthur: The Unmaking of a Honky-Tonk Star
by Emiliy Neely
“Charline’s use of sexual innuendo clearly confused the country music media.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2002: Biography
"God Giveth the Increase": Lurline Stokes Murray's Narrative of Farming and Faith
by Lu Ann Jones
“‘Honey, in our way of life, there ain’t no banker’s hours, and I don’t find in the Bible there’s no such thing as an eight-hour day.’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2002: Biography
Learning Strategy at English Field
poetry by Darnell Arnoult
“He is cocky. He’s also cute and a good kisser.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2002: Ghosts
My Twentieth Century: Leaves from a Journal
by Anne Firor Scott
“For a moment the world stopped turning while we, a great nation, felt ourselves suddenly headless, directionless.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2003
"The Death of Emma Hartsell"
by Bruce E. Baker
“One December afternoon, he finished off a running argument with his younger brother-in-law with both barrels of a shotgun.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2003
Eudora Welty: "... standing under a shower of blessings"
interviewed by William R. Ferris
“One, two, three. I just waded out...through the muck. And then I got in his sailboat. Of course I was wet, but you can’t ask William Faulkner to wring you out, I guess. It hadn’t occurred to me until this minute that I might have.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 2003
Southern Nigerian
by Elaine Neil Orr
“What I most recall is the sun slamming down, ricocheting off tin roofs of mud and plaster houses that duplicated one another endlessly down a thousand bicycle paths, splashes of puddles during the rains, and a hundred women on their way to market.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 2003
"All Wrought Up": The Apocalyptic South of McKendree Robbins Long
by Lee Smith and Hal Crowther
with a poem by Robert Hill Long
“We often had dates for the revival, since there wasn’t anything else to do in that town, or anyplace else to go, and that oftentimes your date would be holding your hand while you both got all wrought up together. So there was a sexual thing going on there, too.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2004
Mill Village and The Stretch-Out
two poems by Ron Rash
“I was only seventeen, a girl
who still could trust a suit and smile.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2004
Alice Walker: “I know what the earth says.”
interviewed by William R. Ferris
“I love B. B. because he loves women. They can be mean, they can be bitchy, they can be carrying on, but you can tell he really loves them. He’s full of love. I would like to be the literary B.B. King.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2004
Suzanne Lebsock
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial (review)
reviewed by S. Willoughby Anderson
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 2004
Zelda Sayre, Belle
by Linda Wagner-Martin
“There are few more memorable wives in twentieth-century American culture than Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, who was married to the successful young author F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 2004
Shellburne Thurber’s Southern Home
by Lee Zacharias
“‘I never really knew my mother very well and I think that I was trying to figure out who she was. Since she wasn’t around anymore, the only things I could photograph were the places that she’d lived in.’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2004
Barbara Ransby
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (review)
reviewed by Charles M. Payne
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2004
Anatomy of a Quilt
: The Gee’s Bend Freedom Quilting Bee
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
“Something akin to a bitter culture war took place each time I would bring out a sample of those decidedly un-Yankee Gee’s Bend quilts. ‘They don’t look right,’ we were told. ‘Who would want to sleep under something like this?’”
Southern Cultures, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2004