White Masculinity in the Recent South /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Trent, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Edition:1st print.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Men, White.
Men > Social conditions.
Masculinity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Hommes > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Masculinite > États-Unis (Sud)
Blancs > États-Unis (Sud)
Men > Southern States > Social conditions.
Masculinity > Southern States.
Men, White > Southern States.
Southern States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780807137673

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