TY - BOOK ID - 80840533 TI - Private Confederacies : The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers PY - 2019 SN - 9781469649764 1469649764 9781469649771 1469649772 9781469651989 146965198X 9781469649757 1469649756 9798890848994 PB - Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Men KW - Masculinity KW - Masculinity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Human males KW - Human beings KW - Males KW - Effeminacy KW - Social life and customs KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80840533 AB - "This book rests at the intersection of our Civil War, Southern studies, and gender studies lists. Broomall seeks to understand how the experiences of the war, Emancipation, and Reconstruction shaped ex-Confederate men, and more generally, white masculinity in the South. Scholars of antebellum southern masculinity among middle and upper class whites have persuasively argued that these men embraced Christian gentility and engaged a vibrant intellectual culture while commanding themselves and their feelings with a firm hand. This bolstered an atmosphere of competition, erected barriers between men, and maintained a white social order. But the crisis of the Civil War forced the reconfiguration of antebellum behavior and expression as witnessed in white southern men's gender identities and manifestations of emotion"-- ER -