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Book Review


Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. By Karen L. Cox. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xx, 218 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2625-3.)
As a distinctive group of conservative women in American history who gained enormous social and political power from within a traditional sphere, there is no better example than the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). At long last, the UDC, founded in 1894, has received a full scholarly treatment in this work by Karen L. Cox. Cox's superb research encompasses the minutes and papers of UDC leaders and some effective interviews conducted in 1989–1990 with women who had been members of the Children of the Confederacy. . . .
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