"Counterfeit Gentlemen" is a stunning reappraisal of Southern manhood and identity that uses humor and humorists to carry the reader into the very heart of antebellum culture. What does it mean to be a man in the pre-Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by ...
This book covers topics from Cherokee chiefs to womanless weddings. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection "Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South" (Georgia, 2004), "Southern Masculinity" explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the ...
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