White Masculinity in the Recent South Contributor(s): Watts, Trent (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807133140 ISBN-13: 9780807133149 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: 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 good old boy, the redneck, and the southern gentleman. With topics ranging from southern Protestant churches to the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, this cutting-edge 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Men's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 305.388 |
LCCN: 2008004174 |
Series: Making the Modern South |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.4" W x 9.01" (1.21 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantation owners to post--Civil 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 the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, the media have helped to shape modern models of white manhood, not only for southerners but for the rest of the nation and the world. |