White Masculinity in the Recent South

White Masculinity in the Recent South
ISBN-10
0807137677
ISBN-13
9780807137673
Category
History
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2008-05
Publisher
LSU Press
Author
Trent Watts

Description

From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantation owners, to postCivil War southern writers seeking to advance a model of southern manhood and male authority as honorable, dignified, and admirable, the idea of a distinctly southern masculinity has reflected the broad regional differences between North and South. 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.

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