Boyhoods : rethinking masculinities / Ken Corbett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbett, Ken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boys--Psychology.

Boys.

Masculinity--United States.

Masculinity.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 feminist and queer theories. New social ideals are being articulated. New possibilities for recognition are in play. How is a boy made between the body, the family, and the culture? Does a boy grow by identifying with his father, or by separating from his mother? Can we continue to presume that masculinity is made at home? Corbett uses case studies to defy stereotypes, depicting masculinity as various and complex. He examines the roles that parental and cultural anxiety play in development, and he argues for a more nuanced approach to cross-gendered fantasy and experience, one that does not mistake social consensus for well-being. Corbett challenges us at last to a fresh consideration of gender, with profound implications for understanding all boys.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Little Hans

Chapter Two. Nontraditional Family Reverie

Chapter Three. Boyhood Femininity

Chapter Four. Trans States

Chapter Five. Faggot = Loser

Chapter Six. Fantastic Phallicism

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-282-41585-9

9786612415852

0-300-15494-1

OCLC:

707082800