Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood

by Gisela Kaplan and Judy Chu

Book Overview

A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselves--the texture of their lives and the ways in which they resist stereotypical representations of them.
Most of this work on boys is based primarily on middle class, white boys. Yet boys from poor and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814793851
• ISBN13: 9780814793855
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"