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A lively look at the cultural history of American boyhood - now in paperback!

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"Kidd offers fascinating evidence that 'feral tales' . . . seeped into the mind of childhood experts . . . [and] indelibly marked the way we think about boyhood." -Village Voice
"Kenneth Kidd's Making American Boys is a remarkable pioneer study of the sociocultural conditions that influenced the particular development of American boyhood from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . This book is requisite reading for understanding how boys become 'real' American men." -Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota

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ContentsAcknowledgementsBoyhood for Beginners: An Introduction1. Farming for Boys2. Bad Boys and Men of Culture3. Wolf-Boys, Street Rats, and the Vanishing Sioux4. Father Flanagan's Boys Town5. From Freud's Wolf Man to Teen Wolf6. Reinventing the Boy ProblemNotesWorks CitedIndex

Making American Boys Boyology and the Feral Tale

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    A Paperback by Kenneth B. Kidd

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      Publisher MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Published 6 September 2005
      ISBN-13 9780816642960
      978-0816642960
      ISBN-10 0816642966
      Also in:
      Gender studies: men and boys

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A lively look at the cultural history of American boyhood - now in paperback!

      Trade Review
      "Kidd offers fascinating evidence that 'feral tales' . . . seeped into the mind of childhood experts . . . [and] indelibly marked the way we think about boyhood." -Village Voice
      "Kenneth Kidd's Making American Boys is a remarkable pioneer study of the sociocultural conditions that influenced the particular development of American boyhood from the late nineteenth century to the present. . . . This book is requisite reading for understanding how boys become 'real' American men." -Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota

      Table of Contents
      ContentsAcknowledgementsBoyhood for Beginners: An Introduction1. Farming for Boys2. Bad Boys and Men of Culture3. Wolf-Boys, Street Rats, and the Vanishing Sioux4. Father Flanagan's Boys Town5. From Freud's Wolf Man to Teen Wolf6. Reinventing the Boy ProblemNotesWorks CitedIndex

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