1997: Gender and the Southern Body Politic

Gender and the Southern Body Politic

Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Yerby Center

8:00 PM

Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity

Kathleen Brown, Univrersity of Pennsylvania
Winthrop Jordan, University of Mississippi

Yerby Center

8:30 AM

When Physical Violence is Not Assault: Domestic Relations, Legal Personhood, and Political Discourse in the Antebellum South

Laura Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Bardaglio, Goucher College

Yerby Center

10:30 AM

Pure Women and Soldiers' Wives: Political Obligation in the Civil War South

Stephanie McCurry, University of California, San Diego
Tera Hunter, Carnegie Mellon University

Yerby Center

2:30 PM

Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books, Oxford MS

5:00 PM

New Men in Body and Soul: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Transformation of Male Bodies and the Body Politic

Bryant Simon, University of Georgia
Louise Newman, University of Florida

Yerby Center

10:00 AM

Re-designing Dixie: The Reconstitution of Race, Gender, and Culture in the South through Affirmative Action on the Job

Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University
Chana Kai Lee, Indiana University

Yerby Center

2:00 PM