Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: a feminist approach to boy culture -- Postfeminist nostalgia for pre-sputnik cowboys -- Superior bodies and blue-collar brawn: "real" and rhetorical manhoods -- "I am speed": athleticism, competition, and the bully society -- "Hey, double prizes!" Pixar's boy villains, gifts and intensities -- Ornamental masculinity and the commodity-self -- "She don't love you no more": bad boys and worse parents.
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