Description: Spanning the American Revolution to the Civil War, these nine essays explore the many ways in which southerners made sense of manhood. Employing a rich variety of methodologies, they look at southern masculinity within African American, white, and Native American communities; on the frontier and in towns; and across boundaries of class and age.
Review Quotes:
A fine collection of essays that apply the new methods and approaches of masculine studies to the study of the Old South. . . . Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South is a pioneering effort opening new ground in both the study of masculine history and the history of the American South.
--North Carolina Historical Review