The company he keeps
Subtitle: a history of white college fraternities
By: Nicholas L. Syrett.
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780807832530; 9780807859315
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Camaraderie and resistance : the founding and function of college fraternities; title: The sacred, the secular, and the manly; title: Very fraternally yours : national brotherhood in the nineteenth century; title: Greeks and barbs : social class and the rise of the fraternity in the postbellum years; title: Fussers and fast women : fraternity men in the 1920s; title: Democracy, drinking, and violence : post-World War II fraternities.