Misreading Masculinity : Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture


Thomas. Newkirk
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Portsmouth : : Heinemann, , 2002.
Omfang
1 online resource (220 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Believing Game; Chapter 1: The ""Crisis"" in Boyhood; Chapter 2: Making Sense of the Gender Gap; Chapter 3: The Case Against Literacy: A Respectful Meditation on Resistance; Chapter 4: Taste and Distaste; Chapter 5: Violence and Innocence; Chapter 6: Misreading Violence; Chapter 7: Making Way for Captain Underpants: A Chapter in Three Acts; Chapter 8: A Big Enough Room; References. - The issues of popular culture and the behavior of boys have generated more heat than light, leading to censorship, alarm, irrationality, and a failure to examine our ways of teaching boys. In Misreading Masculinity Tom Newkirk takes an up-close and personal look at elementary boys and their relationship to sports, movies, video games, and other venues of popular culture. Unlike the alarmists, he sees these media not as enemies of literacy, but as resources for literacy.
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ISBN
0325004455

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