Reconstituting the Next Generation: An Analysis of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's Catechisms for Children

Saying Goodbye to Men: Southern Feminists Publishing News While Challenging Patriarchy

“…While Cash (1941) delineated Southern culture as originating from the former Confederate States of America and defined by a complex interaction among “established relationships and habits of thought, sentiments, prejudices, standards and values … ” (p. xlviii), the author also acknowledged that “many Souths” existed within the “one South”—not every Southerner held the same values. But the values that did dominate the South originated from the antebellum Old South myth when Southern elites constructed an “identity as chivalrous, romantic and aristocratic” (Heyse, 2011, p. 60). The “chivalrous” attitude taught men to view women as “center and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine, tangent and secant of all our affections” (Cash, 1941, p. 86).…”

Who Would Jesus Bomb? The Republican Jesus Meme and the Fracturing of Ideology

“…In Althusser (1971Althusser ( /2001, however, interpellation entails more than mere address: interpellation occurs not at the moment that the individual is (mis)recognized as such and such a subject but at the moment where the auditor acknowledges that (mis)recognition as legitimate recognition and signals her or his assumption of that subjectivity. Heyse's (2011) analysis of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, for example, identifies catechisms for small children as a primary means of interpellating new generations of children into subjectivity as southern descendants of the men who fought in the Civil War. Schoolchildren became members of a reborn Confederacy not at the moment that they were spoken to but when they spoke back as members of the Confederacy.…”