Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South

• Published in: Journal of Southern History Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 746 - 747
• Main Author: Strobel, Marian Elizabeth
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Houston Southern Historical Association 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Contests; Essays; Faludi, Susan C; Language history; Political conventions; Political discourse; Quayle, Dan; Women; Georgia; Florida; China; Missouri

In Williams's mind, attacks on Susan Smith's motherhood, by "masqueradfing under the banner of 'family values,'" help historians "crack the code ... of the new political language of the late twentieth century" (p. 223). [...] Smith's story had national as...