Between the generations of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis,
the culture of white Southerners experienced significant changes,
including the establishment of a normative male identity that
exuded confidence, independence, and power. "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.
This was the first generation of boys raised to conceive of
themselves as Americans, as well as the first cohort of
self-defined southern men. They grew up believing that the fate of
the American experiment in self-government depended on their
ability to put away personal predispositions and perform prescribed
roles. Because men faced demanding gender norms, boys had to pass
exacting tests of manhood--in education, refinement, courting,
careers, and slave mastery. Only then could they join the ranks of
the elite and claim power in society.
Revealing the complex interplay of nationalism and regionalism
in the lives of southern men, Glover brings new insight to the
question of what led the South toward sectionalism and civil
war.
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