| Physical description |
vi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Making the modern South. |
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Making the modern South.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Telling White Men's Stories / Trent Watts -- Church Camping and White Southern Manhood: Evangelical Males and Christian Primitivism, 1920s-1970s / Ted Ownby -- Where the Action Is: Interstate Rest Areas, the Creation of Gay Space, and the Recovery of a Lost Narrative / Brock Thompson -- Political Parties: College Social Fraternities, Manhood, and the Defense of Southern Traditionalism, 1945-1960 / Anthony James -- A Real Man's Place: Attitudes and Environment at a Southern Deer Camp / Adam Watts -- A Question of Honor: Masculinity and Massive Resistance to Integration / Steve Estes -- The Boycotting of Coach Rutter: Manhood, Race, and Authority in Post-1970 Mississippi / Trent Watts -- Neo-Confederates in the Basement: The League of the South and the Crusade against Southern Emasculation / K. Michael Prince -- "The Most Man in the World": Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Cult of Southern Masculinity / Court Carney -- White Southern Masculinity and Southern Comfort: An Interview with Kate Davis / Larry Vonalt -- Doctor's Son / Edwin T. Arnold -- Drinking Poisoned Waters: Traumatized Masculinity and White Southern Identity in Contemporary Family Memoirs / James Watkins -- Ratliff and the Demise of Male Mastery: Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy and Cold War Masculinity / Susan V. Donaldson -- Where Has the Free Bird Flown?: Lynyrd Skynyrd and White Southern Manhood / Barbara Ching. |
| Summary |
"In White Masculinity in the Recent South, thirteen scholars of history, literature, film, and environmental studies examine modern white masculinity, including such stereotypes as the good old boy, the redneck, and the southern gentleman. With topics ranging from southern Protestant churches to the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, this volume seeks to do what no other single work has done: to explore the ways in which white southern manhood has been experienced and represented since World War II. Using a variety of approachescultural and social history, close readings of literature and music, interviews, and personal stories - the contributors explore some of the ways in which white men have acted in response to their own and their culture's conceptions of white manhood. Subjects include neo-Confederates, the novels of William Faulkner, gay southern men, football coaching, deer hunting, church camps, college fraternities, and white men's responses to the civil rights movement." "Taken together, these pieces show how white southern men are shaped by regional as well as broader American ideas of what they ought to do and be. White men themselves, the contributors explain, view the idea of southern manhood in two seemingly contradictory ways - as something natural and as something learned through rites of initiation and passage - and believe it must be lived and displayed to one's peers and others in order to be fully realized."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Other author |
Brown, Trent, 1965-
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| Subject |
Men, White -- Southern States.
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Masculinity -- Southern States.
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Men -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Men.
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| ISBN |
9780807133149 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0807133140 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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