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SOUTHERN GENDER Nancy Bercaw & Ted Ownby, vol. eds., THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE, VOLUME 13: GENDER. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 456p. $19.95, ISBN 978-0807859483.
Reviewed by Yadira V. Payne
Developing a deep understanding of Southern U.S. culture requires studying key figures, groups, social influences, and historical incidents as well as stereotypes and gender issues. Such an examination will result in a comprehensive understanding of women's influences on modern Southern culture, as well as a clearer perception of how that culture has affected women's lives. In Volume 13 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, editors Nancy Bercaw and Ted Ownby have successfully compiled the contributions of major scholars and researchers in the fields of Southern history, the history of women, and women's studies to allow for just such an investigation.
Arranged in alphabetical order, the entries in this volume provide a general overview of such...