| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South. Ed. by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xx, 234 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2423-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2616-X.)

This fine collection of essays provides an important corrective to what has been a generally narrow discussion of masculinity in the antebellum South. Previous studies have concentrated primarily on the planter elite and have placed the ideal of honor at the center of what it meant to be a man in the South during the first half of the nineteenth century. The emphasis on a code of honor placed elite white men at the top of a social hierarchy determined by class, gender, and race, and it was also thought to have kept them out of step with northerners, men who were beginning to embrace the marketplace and who understood masculinity in terms of individualism and economic success.

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