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Making American Boys
Kenneth B. Kidd
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Description for Making American Boys
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ2; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 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, ... Read more
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 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642960
SKU
V9780816642960
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About Kenneth B. Kidd
Kenneth B. Kidd is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and associate director of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture.
Reviews for Making American Boys
"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 ... Read more