Big T-shirts and Running Shorts: A Female Uniform and Southern Womanhood on the Ole Miss Campus

Author

Abigail Abide, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Date of Award

2014

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Southern Studies

First Advisor

Darren Grem

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

This thesis attempts to understand why white female sorority members wear oversized t-shirts as a uniform to their classes and how this outfit affects the construction of white southern womanhood on the Ole Miss campus. In this exploration, I have interview male and female, black and white, undergraduates. I also used an online survey that I separated by sex. I have found that oversized t-shirts are related to ideas of social status, sexuality, class, constructions of ideas about the female body, and southern identity with in the Greek community. These ideas intensely affect the daily lives of Ole Miss students and how they construct their social world.

Recommended Citation

Abide, Abigail, "Big T-shirts and Running Shorts: A Female Uniform and Southern Womanhood on the Ole Miss Campus" (2014). Honors Theses. 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3

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