White masculinity in the recent South (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
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
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