The company he keeps : a history of white college fraternities / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syrett, Nicholas L.

Series:

Gender & American culture

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek letter societies--United States--History--19th century.

Greek letter societies.

Greek letter societies--United States--History--20th century.

Male college students--United States--History.

Male college students.

Masculinity--United States--History.

Masculinity.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

Contents:

Camaraderie and resistance : the founding and function of college fraternities

The sacred, the secular, and the manly

Very fraternally yours : national brotherhood in the nineteenth century

Greeks and barbs : social class and the rise of the fraternity in the postbellum years

Fussers and fast women : fraternity men in the 1920s

Democracy, drinking, and violence : post-World War II fraternities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-400) and index.

ISBN:

9780807832530

0807832537

9780807859315

0807859311

OCLC:

244481681