In her acticle "Masculine Identity Work Among Missouri Noodlers: Community Providers, Pleasure Seeking Comrades And Family Men, And Tough Courageous Men" (2009), Mary Grigsby asserts that the culture behind catfish noodling is actually an ingrained way of expressing masculinity among those who practice it in the United State's southern states. She first reseraches the psychology and general age/gender groups that practice catfish, concluding on the middle-aged male majority and their mindset when it comes to the activity. She writes in order to give a psychological or scientific reason for the popularity of catfish noodling and the cultural and social reasons for its practice. Her intended audience consists of those who are looking for a background taken from a fresh perspective on the issue, looking at the sport from a different stance than the legal one which is most often encountered.
Article: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/Articles/SRS%202009%2024%202%20218-243.pdf?pagewanted=all
MLA Citation:
Grigsby, Mary. Masculine Identity Work Among Missouri Noodlers: Community Providers, Pleasure Seeking Comrades and FAmily Men, and Tough Courageous Men. Southern Rural Sociological Association, 2009. Web.
13 February 2012
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