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Adolescent Boys : Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood by Niobe Way and Judy Y. Chu is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Adolescent Boys : Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood about?

A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselves—the texture of their lives and the ways in which they resist stereotypical representations of them. Most of this work on boys is based primarily on middle class, white boys. Yet boys from poor and working class families as well as those from African American, Latino, and Asian American backgrounds need to be understood in their own terms and not just as a contrast to white or middle class boys. Adolescent Boys brings together the most up-to-date empirical research focused on understanding the development of boys from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The authors show how the contexts of boys'lives, such as the schools they attend shape their identities and relationships. The research in this book will help professionals and parents understand the diversity and richness of boys'experiences.

Author

Niobe Way and Judy Y. Chu

Publisher

New York: New York University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814793848

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology