Hospitality, Hunting, and the Home in "Garden & Gun": Deconstructing Southern Identity Based on Representations of Gender, Race, and Class

Willcoxon, Alexa E. (2016) Hospitality, Hunting, and the Home in "Garden & Gun": Deconstructing Southern Identity Based on Representations of Gender, Race, and Class. Undergraduate thesis, under the direction of Theresa Starkey from The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi.

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Abstract

In my thesis, I have studied how Southern identity is formed through Southern leisure magazines, specifically Garden & Gun. I chose to narrow my focus by choosing to look only at the 2014 editions of the magazine, and I also looked primarily at the food, alcohol, homes, and hunting sections in order to be concise. Through my research, I have discovered that the magazine, although trying to be inclusive for race and gender, struggles to accurately depict the South. Instead, the magazine focuses on the primarily white, upper classes of the region, which creates and imagined reality for the reader. But, while race is not represented in sections of the magazine, gender representation (for white men and women) is always equal While researching, I discovered that in the food section of the magazine, Garden & Gun allows the kitchen to become an inclusive domain by representing men and women, white and black, equally alongside one another. So, this means that Garden & Gun, while trying to be inclusive for everyone, is unable to expand the acceptance to other sections of the magazine.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Creators: Willcoxon, Alexa E.
Student's Degree Program(s): English
Thesis Advisor: Theresa Starkey
Thesis Advisor's Department: The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Institution: University of Mississippi
Subjects: E History America > E151 United States (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Depositing User: Miss Alexa Willcoxon
Date Deposited: 16 May 2016 13:07
Last Modified: 16 May 2016 13:07
URI: http://thesis.honors.olemiss.edu/id/eprint/603

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