Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Making American boys [[electronic resource] ] : boyology and the feral tale / / Kenneth B. Kidd



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Kidd Kenneth B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making American boys [[electronic resource] ] : boyology and the feral tale / / Kenneth B. Kidd Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/92826
Soggetto topico: Children's stories, American - History and criticism
Boys - Books and reading - United States
Feral children in literature
Boys in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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. Kidd finds that the education and supervision of boys in the United States have been shaped by the collaboration of two seemingly conflictive approac
Titolo autorizzato: Making American boys  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9566-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452093503321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui