Kidd, Kenneth B.

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.)

2003023381


Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Boys--Books and reading--United States.
Feral children in literature.
Boys in literature.

PS374.C454 / K53 2004

810.9/92826