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The boy problem : educating boys in urban America, 1870-1970 / Julia Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Julia, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boys--Education--United States.
- Boys.
- City children--Education--United States.
- City children.
- Urban schools--United States.
- Urban schools.
- Academic achievement--United States.
- Academic achievement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Schooling the "Dangerous Classes"?: Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America""; ""2 The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity""; ""3 The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers""; ""4 Bad or Backward?: Gender and the Genesis of Special Education""; ""5 "The Boy's Own Story": Masculinity, Peer Culture, and Delinquency""; ""6 Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1260-8
- OCLC:
- 869735682
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