Jennifer Lambert (jenelamb@mars.utm.edu) from 206.240.200.207 at 09/30/98 12:05AM
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    My comment will be along the lines of several others. Southern women are women who live in the South, that's it. I fail to see, for the most part, a difference in Southern women and non-Southern women. I think the only thing that separates Southern women is their being from the South, something Southern men can also claim. The stereotype of the Southern belle, Scarlett O'Hara, etc. is just that, a stereotype. It is for the most part, I believe, a myth. The hardships Southern women endured were endured to the same extent by immigrant women in the midwest or Native American women in the West. There are trials and hardships in every lifestyle, regardless of geography. I appreciate the study of Southern women but find it hard to identify with.