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This volume is written in accessible language and makes notable contributions to our understanding of how clothing intersects with race, gender, and identity more broadly. It should engage a wide range of readers, especially those who are interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of southern women's work.--Kathleen B. Casey, Virginia Wesleyan University The Journal of Southern History, Volume LXXXVII, No. 2, May 2021 Introducing and exploring the themes featured in this series of scholarly essays, Ted Ownby and Jonathan Prude lead the reader to an understanding of common threads that tie these studies together. A list of contributors, along with select illustrations and extensive notes and index, make this a recommended volume for academic libraries with historical and sociological collections on the Southeastern United States.--Melanie Dunn, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The Southeastern Librarian What is southern clothing? What makes fashion southern? This collection resists easy answers to these questions, and that is precisely what makes it so valuable. Far from rehashing shopworn arguments about southern identity, the editors and contributors demonstrate that clothing in and of the South tells a bigger story--one that is fundamentally about power and politics. After reading this first-ever book exploring the many meanings of clothing in the South, one realizes how impoverished our understanding of southern history has been. Indeed, one wonders: why have we had to wait so long?--Blain Roberts, professor of history, California State University, Fresno This book is the first of its kind to analyze clothing and fashion throughout the geographical and economic entity that is the American South. . . . Clothing and Fashion in Southern History did not set out to be a comprehensive guide to fashion history of the American South, and it is this acknowledgement that allows it to further serve as a thought provoking basis for further research into this area of the field.--Dylan Leah Brekka The Journal of Dress History, Volume 5, Issue 2, Early Summer 2021

This volume is written in accessible language and makes notable contributions to our understanding of how clothing intersects with race, gender, and identity more broadly. It should engage a wide range of readers, especially those who are interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of southern women's work.--Kathleen B. Casey, Virginia Wesleyan University ""The Journal of Southern History, Volume LXXXVII, No. 2, May 2021"" Introducing and exploring the themes featured in this series of scholarly essays, Ted Ownby and Jonathan Prude lead the reader to an understanding of common threads that tie these studies together. A list of contributors, along with select illustrations and extensive notes and index, make this a recommended volume for academic libraries with historical and sociological collections on the Southeastern United States.--Melanie Dunn, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ""The Southeastern Librarian"" What is southern clothing? What makes fashion southern? This collection resists easy answers to these questions, and that is precisely what makes it so valuable. Far from rehashing shopworn arguments about southern identity, the editors and contributors demonstrate that clothing in and of the South tells a bigger story--one that is fundamentally about power and politics. After reading this first-ever book exploring the many meanings of clothing in the South, one realizes how impoverished our understanding of southern history has been. Indeed, one wonders: why have we had to wait so long?--Blain Roberts, professor of history, California State University, Fresno This book is the first of its kind to analyze clothing and fashion throughout the geographical and economic entity that is the American South. . . . Clothing and Fashion in Southern History did not set out to be a comprehensive guide to fashion history of the American South, and it is this acknowledgement that allows it to further serve as a thought provoking basis for further research into this area of the field.--Dylan Leah Brekka ""The Journal of Dress History, Volume 5, Issue 2, Early Summer 2021""

Introducing and exploring the themes featured in this series of scholarly essays, Ted Ownby and Jonathan Prude lead the reader to an understanding of common threads that tie these studies together. A list of contributors, along with select illustrations and extensive notes and index, make this a recommended volume for academic libraries with historical and sociological collections on the Southeastern United States.--Melanie Dunn, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The Southeastern Librarian What is southern clothing? What makes fashion southern? This collection resists easy answers to these questions, and that is precisely what makes it so valuable. Far from rehashing shopworn arguments about southern identity, the editors and contributors demonstrate that clothing in and of the South tells a bigger story--one that is fundamentally about power and politics. After reading this first-ever book exploring the many meanings of clothing in the South, one realizes how impoverished our understanding of southern history has been. Indeed, one wonders: why have we had to wait so long?--Blain Roberts, professor of history, California State University, Fresno

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Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, Manners and Southern History, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and Black and White: Cultural Interactions in the Antebellum South and coeditor of Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia, and Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Becca Walton is former associate director for projects at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

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