Southern manhood : perspectives on masculinity in the Old South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend & Lorri Glover.

Other author Friend, Craig Thompson.
Other author Glover, Lorri, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxvii, 234 pages ; 24 c.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Men--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Masculinity--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Southern States--History. --1775-1865.

Contents Rethinking southern masculinity: an introduction / Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover -- Refuge of manhood: masculinity and the militia experience in Kentucky / Harry S. Laver -- "Let us manufacture men": educating elite boys in the early national South / Lorri Glover -- Trying to look like men: changing notions of masculinity among Choctaw elites in the early republic / Greg O'Brien -- Fraternity and masculine identity: the search for respectability among white and black artisans in Petersburg, Virginia / L. Diane Barnes -- Belles, benefactors, and the blacksmith's son: Cyrus Stuart and the enigma of southern gentlemanliness / Craig Thompson Friend -- Being shifty in a new country: southern humor and the masculine ideal / John Mayfield -- The absent subject: African American masculinity and forced migration to the antebellum plantation frontier / Edward E. Baptist -- "Stout chaps who can bear the distress": young men in antebellum military academies / Jennifer R. Green -- "Commenced to think like a man": literacy and manhood in African American Civil War regiments / Heather Andrea Williams.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-234).
LCCN 2003021627
ISBN082032423X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN082032616X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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