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The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors -- such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness -- that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2011
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.80in - 5.80in - 1.10in - 1.30lb
- EAN: 9780807859315
- Categories: • Higher• Student Life & Student Affairs
About the Author
Syrett, Nicholas L.: - Nicholas L. Syrett is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas and author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States.
Praise for this book
Six crisp, deeply researched chapters trace changes from the ideals of brotherhood and genteel manliness that gave birth to fraternities to those of masculinity linked to athleticism, sexual prowess, and the like that appeared by 2000. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice
Vibrantly written. . . . To a remarkable degree, Syrett connects developments within both American society generally and American higher education specifically to explain the behavior of white fraternity men. . . . One of the best histories of college student life in recent years.--History of Education Quarterly
Careful, convincing, and well grounded in many primary sources. . . . Highly readable.--History News Network
A welcome addition to gender history and the history of education. . . . Masculinity specialists, historians of the nineteenth century, and historians of education will value Syrett's extensive research, impressive contextualization, and convincing argument that fraternities participated in the changing ideals of manhood.--Journal of American History
[An] engaging, readable, and ultimately disturbing history of white college fraternities.--Journal of Southern History
The first [history of white fraternities in America] of its kind.--Greeley Tribune
There is a lot to learn from its pages; what is so rewarding about the text is its speculations about the advance--and possibly the decline--of American culture that it provokes. The more deeply Syrett probes, the more one wonders: what is our world coming to?--American Historical Review
Provides the first historical study that charts the growth of fraternities in the United States. He uses this dazzling assortment of evidence in order to evaluate how white men's ideas and enactment of, what he calls, 'fraternal masculinity, ' changed over time. . . . Brilliantly articulates how this notion of masculinity changed and when it changed.--Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History
By researching fraternities found throughout the country and over two centuries, Syrett is able to make a comprehensive and important contribution to the history of sexuality, social life, and gender on college campuses. . . . He has helped to open the door for scholars to research fraternities and parts of extracurricular life as worthy historical topics.--H-Education
What makes this work stand out among studies of fraternity culture is the evolving definition of masculinity that serves as the conceptual lens for this book. . . . This is a fascinating perspective and offers college educators an insight into how the fraternity men on our campuses today may see themselves.--Journal of College Student Development