Stories of raising boys : masculinity, disability, gender expansiveness, and anxiety / Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott-Pollock, Julie-Ann, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Children.

Identity (Psychology) in children--United States.

Identity (Psychology) in children.

Mothers and sons--United States.

Mothers and sons.

Parents with disabilities--United States.

Parents with disabilities.

Children--Social conditions.

Scott-Pollock, Julie-Ann--Family.

Scott-Pollock, Julie-Ann.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 204 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"In this book, the author weaves her personal story as a physically disabled white mother raising her sons at the cultural intersections of masculinity, disability, gender expansiveness, and anxiety with narrative interviews conducted with adults with similar experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Parenting White Boys in Cultural Waters and the Risks of Family Storytelling

2. Our Big, Strong, Out-of-Control Boy: Seizing, White Masculinity and Parenting Through the Waves

3. Our Beautiful Boy: Navigating the Cultural Swim of a Gender Expansive Glitter Guy

4. Navigating the Ropes of Anxiety with our Quiet, Gender Expansive Boy

5. Supporting A Little Boy's Exhausting Swim of Dominant Masculinity

6. Our Adventurous Girl: Playing in the Cultural Currents

Epilogue: The Hope of Converging Cultural Currents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Scott-Pollock, Julie-Ann Stories of raising boys

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781439926109

1439926107

9781439926116

1439926115

OCLC:

1534689405

Publisher Number:

90104681413

CIPO000402777