Author: Ken Corbett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: masculinities, rethinking, boyhoods
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300149840
ISBN-13: 9780300149845

Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes in his introduction, “no two boys, no two boyhoods are the same.” In Boy Hoods Corbett seeks to release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in Reviving Ophelia. Corbett grounds his understanding of masculinity in his clinical practice and in a dynamic reading of fe

Author: Rupert S. Holland
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Keywords: boyhoods, historic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-09-05
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1589638840
ISBN-13: 9781589638846

Recounts the boyhoods of 21 famous men, including Washington, Lincoln, Napoleon, Daniel Boone, Mozart, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Lafayette, Robert Fulton, Andrew Jackson, and many others.