Making American Boys : Boyology and the Feral Tale /

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"Will 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 curre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kidd, Kenneth B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Junge > Motiv
Kinderliteratur
Wildes Kind
Feral children in literature.
Children's stories, American.
Boys in literature.
Boys > Books and reading.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Garçons dans la litterature.
Enfants sauvages dans la litterature.
Garçons > Livres et lecture > États-Unis.
Histoires pour enfants americaines > Histoire et critique.
Boys > Books and reading > United States.
Children's stories, American > History and criticism.
USA.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Boyhood for Beginners: An Introduction; 1. Farming for Boys; 2. Bad Boys and Men of Culture; 3. Wolf-Boys, Street Rats, and the Vanishing Sioux; 4. Father Flanagan's Boys Town; 5. From Freud's Wolf Man to Teen Wolf; 6. Reinventing the Boy Problem; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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