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The company he keeps : a history of white college fraternities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Syrett, Nicholas L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Greek letter societies > United States > History > 19th century.
Greek letter societies > United States > History > 20th century.
Male college students > United States > History.
Masculinity > United States > History.
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.