The boy problem : educating boys in urban America, 1870-1970 / / Julia Grant

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789115903321
• Autore: Grant Julia <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4214-1260-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.8211
• Soggetti: Boys - Education - United States; City children - Education - United States; Urban schools - United States; Academic achievement - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Schooling the "Dangerous Classes"?: Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America""; ""2 The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity""; ""3 The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers""; ""4 Bad or Backward?: Gender and the Genesis of Special Education""; ""5 "The Boy's Own Story": Masculinity, Peer Culture, and Delinquency""; ""6 Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; Index.