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Secret Sharing: Debutantes Coming Out in the American South

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Secret Sharing: Debutantes Coming Out in the American South

Lewis, Cynthia Copeland
Southern Cultures , Volume 18 (4) – Nov 4, 2012
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essAy .................... Secret Sharing Debutantes Coming Out in the American South by Cynthia Lewis with photography by Susan Harbage Page My husband is determined that we don't give away all the rituals. --Kitty McEaddy, mother of five Charleston debutantes I don't know what people would do without deb season. --Margaret Lee McEaddy, one of the five What leads contemporary women to draw firm social boundaries, protected by the rites of a sorority or the rituals of coming out, for the sole apparent reason of inviting some people in and excluding others? What accounts for the survival of various debutante societies throughout the South and beyond? St. Cecilia debutante, 2012. he grand staircase fronting the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston leads to large, wooden, locked double doors and instructions to ring the bell for service. The summons brings a face between the doors and, in a moment that recalls the Wizard's brushing off Dorothy through a similar aperture, the question "May I help you?" faintly discourages a reply. Inside, other assistants hustle to retrieve documents from the unseen depths where archives are stored. I pay my five-dollar non-member's fee and ask to see any documents pertaining to the

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Published: Nov 4, 2012

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