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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South.
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Women's RightSouthern HonorLawQueer TheorySocial SciencesFeminist EthicsGender StudiesAfrican American StudiesCivil RightsFeminist IdentityFemale Sexual SlaveryFeminist ScholarshipIntersectionalityFemale CriminalityFeminist PerspectiveGentility Part TwoFeminist TheorySexuality StudiesSociologyLegal HistoryMale CustomNormative EthicPrimal HonorSocial Justice
PREFACE TO TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PART ONE: ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS 1. Honor in Literary Perspective 2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding 3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy 4. Gentility PART TWO: FAMILY AND GENDER BEHAVIOR 5. Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny 6. Male Youth and Honor 7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits 8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage 9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image 10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance 11. Male Custom in Family Life 12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct PART THREE: STRUCTURES OF RIVALRY AND SOCIAL CONTROL 13. Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat 14. Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy 15. Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares 16. Charivari and Lynch Law 17. The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES NOTES INDEX