"You Touch the Fish" : Noodling as a Cultural Practice -- A Special Breed of Men : Affirming a Worthy Identity through Noodling -- Caring Women, Helpmates, Daddy's Girls, and Tomboys : Women and Noodling -- Everyday Resistance and Political Action : Defining the Noodling Way of Life as Worthy -- Eating Fried Catfish : Cultural Construction of a Way of Life -- Afterword -- Appendix: Theory, Methodology, and Literature Review
