The company he keeps a history of white college fraternities /

• Main Author: Syrett, Nicholas L.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
• Series: Gender & American culture.
• Subjects: 1800 - 1999; Greek letter societies > History > 19th century. > United States; Greek letter societies > History > 20th century. > United States; Male college students > History. > United States; Masculinity > History. > United States; Greek letter societies.; EDUCATION > Higher.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.; Male college students.; Masculinity.; United States.; Electronic books.; History.
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Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to how fraternity brothers have defined masculin...

Table of Contents:

• Camaraderie and resistance : the founding and function of college fraternities
• The sacred, the secular, and the manly
• Very fraternally yours : national brotherhood in the nineteenth century
• Greeks and barbs : social class and the rise of the fraternity in the postbellum years
• Fussers and fast women : fraternity men in the 1920s
• Democracy, drinking, and violence : post-World War II fraternities.