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OverviewSpanning the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War, these nine path breaking 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. Until now, the emerging subdiscipline of southern masculinity studies has been informed mainly by conclusions drawn from research on how the planter class engaged issues of honor, mastery, and patriarchy. But what about men who didn't own slaves or were themselves enslaved? These essays illuminate the mechanisms through which such men negotiated with overarching conceptions of masculine power. Here the reader encounters Choctaw elites struggling to maintain manly status in the market economy, black and white artisans forging rival communities and competing against the gentry for social recognition, slave men on the southern frontier balancing community expectations against owner domination, and men in a variety of military settings acting out community expecta Full Product DetailsAuthor: Craig Thompson Friend , Lorri GloverPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.351kg ISBN: 9780820326160ISBN 10: 082032616 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 July 2004 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsSouthern Manhood is a marvelous addition to our understanding of textured manhood.-- Florida Historical Quarterly This fine collection of essays provides an important corrective to what has been a generally narrow discussion of masculinity in the antebellum South. -- Journal of American History Southern Manhood is an important and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of gender history. This rich and compelling collection will take its place on the bookshelves of every serious scholar of gender in the American experience. An important and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of gender history. This rich and compelling collection will take its place on the bookshelves of every serious scholar of gender in the American experience. --Anya Jabour, author of Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal The essays in Southern Manhood are joined by an attention to race and evolving market forces. What emerges from this are often subtle arguments attuned to southern men's overlapping concerns with class and racial identity as they negotiated their position as men within local societies. --Matthew Basso, editor of Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West Southern Manhood is a marvelous addition to our understanding of textured manhood. -- Florida Historical Quarterly All the essays in this collection are insightful, original, well written, well researched, and well worth reading. -- Civil War History A fine collection of essays that apply the new methods and approaches of masculine studies to the study of the Old South. . . . Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South is a pioneering effort opening new ground in both the study of masculine history and the history of the American South. -- North Carolina Historical Review This fine collection of essays provides an important corrective to what has been a generally narrow discussion of masculinity in the antebellum South. -- Journal of American History Southern Manhood is a marvelous addition to our understanding of textured manhood.-- Florida Historical Quarterly This fine collection of essays provides an important corrective to what has been a generally narrow discussion of masculinity in the antebellum South.-- Journal of American History The insights that this study yields are tremendously useful and provide valuable building blocks for more in-depth epistemologies on region - including the South - in critical masculinities.-- Men and Masculinities All the essays in this collection are insightful, original, well written, well researched, and well worth reading.-- Civil War History A fine collection of essays that apply the new methods and approaches of masculine studies to the study of the Old South. . . . Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South is a pioneering effort opening new ground in both the study of masculine history and the history of the American South.-- North Carolina Historical Review The essays in Southern Manhood are joined by an attention to race and evolving market forces. What emerges from this are often subtle arguments attuned to southern men's overlapping concerns with class and racial identity as they negotiated their position as men within local societies.--Matthew Basso editor of Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West An important and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of gender history. This rich and compelling collection will take its place on the bookshelves of every serious scholar of gender in the American experience.--Anya Jabour author of Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal The insights that this study yields are tremendously useful and provide valuable building blocks for more in-depth epistemologies on region - including the South - in critical masculinities. -- Men and Masculinities Southern Manhood is a marvelous addition to our understanding of textured manhood. --Florida Historical Quarterly A fine collection of essays that apply the new methods and approaches of masculine studies to the study of the Old South. . . . Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South is a pioneering effort opening new ground in both the study of masculine history and the history of the American South. --North Carolina Historical Review All the essays in this collection are insightful, original, well written, well researched, and well worth reading. --Civil War History An important and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of gender history. This rich and compelling collection will take its place on the bookshelves of every serious scholar of gender in the American experience. --Anya Jabour author of Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal The essays in Southern Manhood are joined by an attention to race and evolving market forces. What emerges from this are often subtle arguments attuned to southern men's overlapping concerns with class and racial identity as they negotiated their position as men within local societies. --Matthew Basso editor of Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West The insights that this study yields are tremendously useful and provide valuable building blocks for more in-depth epistemologies on region - including the South - in critical masculinities. --Men and Masculinities This fine collection of essays provides an important corrective to what has been a generally narrow discussion of masculinity in the antebellum South. --Journal of American History Southern Manhood is an important and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of gender history. This rich and compelling collection will take its place on the bookshelves of every serious scholar of gender in the American experience. Author InformationCraig Thompson Friend is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is the editor of The Buzzel about Kentuck and the author of a forthcoming book about the Maysville Road in the early American Republic period. Lorri Glover is an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of All Our Relations. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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