Dixie Matters. New Perspectives on Southern Femininities and Masculinities

CONTENTS Introduction Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis Women in the domestic space of the segregated south The Slave and the Mistress: Opposing Definitions of Womanhood in the Antebellum South Youli Theodosiadou Segregation and Civil Rights in the Domestic Sphere: the Mammy Image in Like One of the Family and The Help Susana María Jiménez Placer The Help : Southern Womanhood Revisited Marie Liénard-Yeterian Race and class through a gendered lens Paving the Way for Change: The 1960s South in Shirley Ann Grau s The First Day of School and Joan Williams Spring is Now Gérald Préher In the Circles of Dirt and Desire: the Jacobean spectacle of cruelty in Rebecca Gilman s The Glory of Living Agnieszka Matysiak