Boyhoods : rethinking masculinities /

Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. In "Boy Hoods," Corbett seeks to release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in "Reviving Ophelia."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Corbett, Ken
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Little Hans : masculinity foretold
  • Nontraditional family reverie : masculinity unfolds
  • Boyhood femininity : masculine presuppositions and the anxiety of regulation
  • Trans states : feminine boys and the therapeutic scene of address
  • Faggot = loser : phallic narcissism as defense
  • Fantastic phallicism : recognition, relation, and phallic narcissism.