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With hits such as "Stand By Your Man? and "Golden Ring,? Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette's music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art. Wynette created a persona of high femininity to match the themes she sang about?fawning devotion, redemption in heterosexual romance, the heartbreak of loneliness. Behind the scenes, her life was marked by persistent class anxieties; despite wealth and fame, she kept her beautician's license. Easton argues that the struggle to meet expectations of southernness, womanhood, and southern womanhood, finds subtle expression in Wynette's performance of "Apartment #9??and it's because of these vocal subtleties that it came to be called the saddest song ever written. Wynette similarly took on elements of camp and political critique in her artistry, demonstrating an underappreciated genius. Why Tammy Wynette Matters reveals a musician who doubled back on herself, her façade of earnestness cracked by a melodrama that weaponized femininity and upended feminist expectations, while scoring twenty number-one hits.

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How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.

A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora.

How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return.

A collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.

An introduction to what every law student and practitioner needs to know about legal reasoning.

A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas.

An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.

Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.

An examination of how ancient Mesoamerican sculpture was experienced by its original audiences.

A study of the intersection of rural populations, state formation, and the origins of political conflict in Peru.

After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.