Making patriarchy work for you: Jill Conner Browne's Southern, retrofeminist conduct manuals
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Jill Conner Browne published a funny book, introducing to a national audience the Sweet Potato Queens, a group of women from Jackson, Mississippian 1999. Browne's book is billed as a conduct manual that dispenses everything one needs to know about life and love, and the book became a surprise hit.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2004
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Reconsidering the awakening: The Literary Sisterhood of Kate Chopin and George Egerton
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Kate Chopin's book, 'The A wakening' , which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Sunday times in June 1889, was found " unhealthily introspective and morbid" . Chopin's work is compared to that of Egerton, which are found to have much resemblances.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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Failing fictions: the conflicting and shifting social emphases of Kate Chopin's "local color" stories
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A close examination of Kate Chopin's fiction, specifically her "local color" short stories, is made. The ways, in which the interwoven Southern discourses of race and class have provoked and influenced Chopin's fiction, are discussed.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2004
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