Making American boys : boyology and the feral tale /
Kenneth B. Kidd.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- xi, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.
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.
0816642958 0816642966 (pbk.)
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Children's stories, American--History and criticism. Boys--Books and reading--United States. Feral children in literature. Boys in literature.