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Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics?

Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics? Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics? Sue Tolleson-Rinehart Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 1, 1998, pp. 78-87 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0076 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424372/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:10 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics? by Sue Tolleson-Rinehart h, the flower of southern womanhood: gracious, lovely, and charming. Many features of southern culture have changed greatiy over time. In one way, though, the South retains its dis- tinctiveness: it remains the region of the country least hospitable to the election of women to office. The reasons for this are in- tricately, and inextricably, bound to those notions of southern womanhood. Even after virtual explosions of women's electoral activity in the mid-1970s and 1980s, and the ^ear of the Woman" in 1992, the South has not yet con- tributed her share of stateswomen to the public realm. By 1997 eight of the ten states with the lowest percentages of women in state legislatures were former Confederate or border states, with Alabama ranking fiftieth (see Table 1 ). West http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics?

Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue,
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (1) – Jan 4, 2012
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Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics? Sue Tolleson-Rinehart Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 1, 1998, pp. 78-87 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0076 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424372/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:10 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Can the Flower of Southern Womanhood Bloom in the Garden of Southern Politics? by Sue Tolleson-Rinehart h, the flower of southern womanhood: gracious, lovely, and charming. Many features of southern culture have changed greatiy over time. In one way, though, the South retains its dis- tinctiveness: it remains the region of the country least hospitable to the election of women to office. The reasons for this are in- tricately, and inextricably, bound to those notions of southern womanhood. Even after virtual explosions of women's electoral activity in the mid-1970s and 1980s, and the ^ear of the Woman" in 1992, the South has not yet con- tributed her share of stateswomen to the public realm. By 1997 eight of the ten states with the lowest percentages of women in state legislatures were former Confederate or border states, with Alabama ranking fiftieth (see Table 1 ). West

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