Misreading masculinity : boys, literacy, and popular culture

Misreading masculinity : boys, literacy, and popular culture / Thomas Newkirk ; foreword by Ellin Oliver Keene.

Author/creator	Newkirk, Thomas
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2002.
Description	xxi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	Boys--Education (Elementary) --Social aspects --United States. Language arts (Elementary)--Social aspects --United States. Masculinity in popular culture--United States. Violence in popular culture--United States.

Contents	The "crisis" in boyhood -- Making sense of the gender gap -- The case against literacy : a respectful meditation on resistance -- Taste and distaste -- Violence and innocence -- Misreading violence -- Making way for Captain Underpants : a chapter in three acts -- A big enough room.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202).
LCCN	2002004351
ISBN	0325004455 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	LC1396.4 .N49 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold