Dear Friend of the Center,
By now I know you have heard about the landmark New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, published by the University of North Carolina Press and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The original Encyclopedia, published in 1989, was the first book to deal exclusively with an American regional culture. Now, 20 years later, in the wake of profound changes in the South, the Center and the Press have come together to publish a thoroughly revised and updated edition that reflects these changes and includes the newest scholarship about the region.
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is being published in a series of 24 individual volumes, based on the thematic sections of the original. Charles Reagan Wilson is the general editor of the series. To date, 13 volumes have been published, and volume 14 is scheduled for Fall 2009.
Right now, you can order volumes 1–13 at the special discount price of $365. These are jacketed hardcover editions, whose combined retail value is over $500. If you have been wanting to add these valuable books to your collection, the happy news is that they are available at a tremendous savings. If you already have a few of the volumes, as a friend of the Center you can receive the same 30 percent discount off any of the published volumes you would like to purchase individually. With the discount, the price of each hardcover is $28—a saving of $12 on each book.
Once you take advantage of this offer, UNC Press will send you an e-mail as soon as each new volume is published. You will be able to get the same discount price on volumes 14–24, expected to be published over the next three years, so you will find it easy to complete your set of the series. For more information on the series, simply go to www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/583.
You can purchase the full 13-volume set, or add individual volumes to your shopping cart. When you are ready to check out, type in promotion code 01NESCLB in the box at the upper-right-hand corner of the checkout screen to see your discounted totals.
To repeat the details of this offer, you get all 13 published volumes—from volume 1, Religion, to volume 13, Gender, a $500+ value—for only $365. Or you can order individual volumes at a $28, $12 off the retail price. Thanks for considering this offer, and thanks for your support of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments.
Sincerely,
Ted Ownby
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
The University of Mississippi
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
New Encyclopedia Volume 13: Gender
Entitled Gender, the 13th volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, came out in April. Like its 12 predecessors, each published by the University of North Carolina Press, Gender has the goal of updating scholarship with new and improved entries from the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, published in 1989.
Envisioning an encyclopedia around the concept of gender posed intriguing challenges. “Our main goal,” according to coeditor Ownby, “was to show the ways a generation of good scholarship on gender issues has changed the way we think about the South.” Topics that have become crucial in Southern Studies became the subjects of new entries. Much of the best new scholarship uses the lens of gender to rethink older questions. As series editor Charles Reagan Wilson states in his introduction, “This volume charts ways that men and women have had differing experiences of manhood and womanhood.” The volume has new articles on topics like antimiscegenation laws, the politics of respectability, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, the Scottsboro Boys, the capture of Jefferson Davis, paternalism, Bubba, Lottie Moon, the myth of matriarchy, manly independence, NASCAR, visiting, single mothers, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the blues, and “I Am a Man!”
While entries on emerging topics might attract the most attention, other entries chart the gendered components of some of the most crucial elements of Southern cultural life. “Southern historians have put gender on the map,” according to coeditor Nancy Bercaw. “Over the past 30 years, they’ve shown us how gender is central to understanding key moments in the history of the South and the nation.”
The encyclopedia covers these new ways of thinking about slavery, agriculture, the Civil War, emancipation, racial segregation and desegregation, citizenship, industry, religion, the civil rights movement, poverty, and education. The book has entries discussing various definitions of family life and sexuality, and new entries on various forms of politics join older but updated entries on feminism and antifeminism, suffrage, and voting rights activists. Other entries track the roles gender issues have played in the ways Southerners express themselves through autobiography, literature, humor, photography, and foodways. Entries on gender issues among American Indians, Hispanics, Appalachian people, whites, and African Americans note the intersections of race, diversity, and region.
The editors say they could have added the phrase “and gender” to almost any topic in Southern Studies and made it an entry. As Bercaw and Ownby state on page 1, “This collection of encyclopedia entries is fairly large, but it could be far larger, because one can find gender components in virtually any element of human life.” The volume, with Walter Anderson’s drawing of Adam and Eve on the cover, is available now.
Envisioning an encyclopedia around the concept of gender posed intriguing challenges. “Our main goal,” according to coeditor Ownby, “was to show the ways a generation of good scholarship on gender issues has changed the way we think about the South.” Topics that have become crucial in Southern Studies became the subjects of new entries. Much of the best new scholarship uses the lens of gender to rethink older questions. As series editor Charles Reagan Wilson states in his introduction, “This volume charts ways that men and women have had differing experiences of manhood and womanhood.” The volume has new articles on topics like antimiscegenation laws, the politics of respectability, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, the Scottsboro Boys, the capture of Jefferson Davis, paternalism, Bubba, Lottie Moon, the myth of matriarchy, manly independence, NASCAR, visiting, single mothers, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the blues, and “I Am a Man!”
While entries on emerging topics might attract the most attention, other entries chart the gendered components of some of the most crucial elements of Southern cultural life. “Southern historians have put gender on the map,” according to coeditor Nancy Bercaw. “Over the past 30 years, they’ve shown us how gender is central to understanding key moments in the history of the South and the nation.”
The encyclopedia covers these new ways of thinking about slavery, agriculture, the Civil War, emancipation, racial segregation and desegregation, citizenship, industry, religion, the civil rights movement, poverty, and education. The book has entries discussing various definitions of family life and sexuality, and new entries on various forms of politics join older but updated entries on feminism and antifeminism, suffrage, and voting rights activists. Other entries track the roles gender issues have played in the ways Southerners express themselves through autobiography, literature, humor, photography, and foodways. Entries on gender issues among American Indians, Hispanics, Appalachian people, whites, and African Americans note the intersections of race, diversity, and region.
The editors say they could have added the phrase “and gender” to almost any topic in Southern Studies and made it an entry. As Bercaw and Ownby state on page 1, “This collection of encyclopedia entries is fairly large, but it could be far larger, because one can find gender components in virtually any element of human life.” The volume, with Walter Anderson’s drawing of Adam and Eve on the cover, is available now.
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