02793nam 2200625 a 450 991082399840332120200520144314.00-8166-9566-0(CKB)1000000000481108(EBL)322585(OCoLC)476120131(SSID)ssj0000195750(PQKBManifestationID)11181423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195750(PQKBWorkID)10131005(PQKB)10721909(MiAaPQ)EBC322585(OCoLC)320322252(MdBmJHUP)muse39404(Au-PeEL)EBL322585(CaPaEBR)ebr10202561(CaONFJC)MIL522710(EXLCZ)99100000000048110820031023d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking American boys boyology and the feral tale /Kenneth B. Kidd1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20041 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4295-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.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; IndexWill 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. Kidd finds that the education and supervision of boys in the United States have been shaped by the collaboration of two seemingly conflictive approacChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticismBoysBooks and readingUnited StatesFeral children in literatureBoys in literatureChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.BoysBooks and readingFeral children in literature.Boys in literature.810.9/92826Kidd Kenneth B886890MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823998403321Making American boys4062652UNINA