Introduction -- The first duties of a southern boy -- Raising "self willed" sons -- The educational aspirations of southern families -- Creating southern schools for southern sons -- The (mis)behaviors of southern collegians -- The southern code of gentlemanly conduct -- Acting the part of a gentleman -- Supervising suitors -- Winning a wife -- Professions and the "circle about every man" -- Slaveholding and the destiny of the Republic's southern sons -- Epilogue
Summary
"Southern Sons, the first work in masculinity studies to concentrate on the early South, explores how young men of the southern gentry came of age between the 1790s and the 1820s. Lorri Glover examines how standards for manhood came about, how young men experienced them in the early South, and how those values transformed many American sons into southern nationalists who ultimately would conspire to tear apart the republic they had been raised to lead."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-242) and index
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