White masculinity in the recent South / edited by Trent Watts.

Other author Brown, Trent, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMaking the modern South
Making the modern South. ^A699439
Contents Telling white men's stories / Trent Watts -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2008004174
ISBN9780807133149 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807133140 (cloth : alk. paper)