Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral TaleWill boys be boys? What are little boys made of? Kenneth B. Kidd responds to these familiar questions with a thorough review of boy culture in America since the late nineteenth century. From the "boy work" promoted by character-building organizations such as Scouting and 4-H to current therapeutic and pop psychological obsessions with children's self-esteem, Kidd presents the great variety of cultural influences on the changing notion of boyhood. Analyzing icons of boyhood and maleness from Huck Finn and The Jungle Book's Mowgli to Father Flanagan's Boys Town and even Michael Jackson, Kidd surveys films, psychoanalytic case studies, parenting manuals, historical accounts of the discoveries of "wolf-boys," and self-help books to provide a rigorous history of what it has meant to be an all-American boy. |
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Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
I farming for Doljs | 23 |
2 Oad DoHs and Men of Culture | 49 |
5 VVolfBoLs Street Rats and the Vanishing Oioux | 87 |
4 father lanagan s oHs Town | 111 |
5 from freuds olf Man to Jecn Wolf | 135 |
6 Reinventing the DoH Problem | 167 |
Notes | 191 |
VVorics CIted | 221 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale |
| Autor | Kenneth B. Kidd |
| Editor | U of Minnesota Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0816642958, 9780816642953 |
| Largo | 253 páginas |
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