White Masculinity in the Recent South

Download or read book White Masculinity in the Recent South written by Trent Watts and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.