Syrett, Nicholas L.

The company he keeps a history of white college fraternities / [electronic resource] : Nicholas L. Syrett - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xvi, 412 p.) : ill. - Gender and American culture . - Gender & American culture .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-400) and index

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


Mode of access: Internet

9780807888704 (electronic bk.) 0807888702 (electronic bk.)


Greek letter societies--History--United States--19th century
Greek letter societies--History--United States--20th century
Male college students--History--United States
Masculinity--History--United States