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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friend, Craig Thompson.

Glover, Lorri, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Southern States--History--19th century.

Men.

Masculinity--Southern States--History--19th century.

Masculinity.

History.

Southern States--History--1775-1865.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2004]

Summary:

Spanning the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War, these nine pathbreaking original essays explore the unexpected, competing, or contradictory ways in which southerners made sense of manhood. Employing a rich variety of methodologies, the contributors look at southern masculinity within African American, white, and Native American communities; on the frontier and in towns; and across boundaries of class and age.

As Southern Manhood brings definition to an emerging subdiscipline of southern history, it also pushes the broader field in new directions. All of the essayists take up themes in antebellum history, including southern womanhood, the advent of consumer culture and market relations, and the emergence of sectional conflict.

Contents:

Rethinking Southern Masculinity: An Introduction / Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover vii

Refuge of Manhood: Masculinity and the Militia Experience in Kentucky / Harry S. Laver 1

"Let Us Manufacture Men": Educating Elite Boys in the Early National South / Lorri Glover 22

Trying to Look Like Men: Changing Notions of Masculinity among Choctaw Elites in the Early Republic / Greg O'Brien 49

Fraternity and Masculine Identity: The Search for Respectability among White and Black Artisans in Petersburg, Virginia / L. Diane Barnes 71

Belles, Benefactors, and the Blacksmith's Son: Cyrus Stuart and the Enigma of Southern Gentlemanliness / Craig Thompson Friend 92

Being Shifty in a New Country: Southern Humor and the Masculine Ideal / John Mayfield 113

The Absent Subject: African American Masculinity and Forced Migration to the Antebellum Plantation Frontier / Edward E. Baptist 136

"Stout Chaps Who Can Bear the Distress": Young Men in Antebellum Military Academies / Jennifer R. Green 174

"Commenced to Think Like a Man": Literacy and Manhood in African American Civil War Regiments / Heather Andrea Williams 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234).

ISBN:

082032423X

082032616X

OCLC:

53144722