Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities by Corbett, Ken - 2009

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. pp. x, 276. 8vo. Light general shelfwear; very good in very good, lightly worn dustjacket.

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Yale University Press, 2009. hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. New Haven, 2009; signed and inscribed by author; blue cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; illustrated jacket with tear at crown of back strip; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 276 pages.

Yale University Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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… Read More

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