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ISBN: | 0585319413 9780585319414 080710776X 9780807107768 9780807108666 0807108669 0807141402 9780807141403 0807108669 9780807141403
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often created within her gracious and gentle exterior a turmoil of frustration, confusion, and resentment.This concept of upper middle-class, white southern womanhood forms an important part of the imaginative expression of the southern women writers whose works and lives form the subject matter of thi.
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Other form: | Print version: Jones, Anne Goodwyn. Tomorrow is another day. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, ©1981 0807108669
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