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"Making a man out of a boy": Masculinity, male privilege, and miseducation in the Boy Scouts of America.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Making a man out of a boy": Masculinity, male privilege, and miseducation in the Boy Scouts of America./
Author:	Meinhart, Charles Joseph.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: A, page: 3394.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-09A.
Subject:	Education, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3371701
ISBN:	9781109330465

"Making a man out of a boy": Masculinity, male privilege, and miseducation in the Boy Scouts of America.
Meinhart, Charles Joseph.

"Making a man out of a boy": Masculinity, male privilege, and miseducation in the Boy Scouts of America. - 193 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-09, Section: A, page: 3394.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2009.

This inquiry responds to a perceived "masculinity crisis" by examining the educational meanings and cultural values of "masculinization." (Pollack, 1998, 2000; Sommers, 2000; Gurian, 1996) Claiming that a masculinization process premised upon the dominant form of masculinity in American culture brutalizes boys, and contributes to social violence, misogyny, and homophobia, this study challenges the narrow conception of manhood on which this "crisis" is premised. This study theorizes such masculinization as a form of "cultural miseducation" (Martin, 1992, 2002) by means of "regimes of truth" (Foucault, 1984) that construct a violent social order and establishes criteria for understanding boys' responses to brutalization as "varieties of masculine experience" derived from William James' Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). Through numerous educational strategies and environments, a variety of masculinities emerge as boys respond to masculinization in American culture -- Prisoner, Victim, Stranger, and Healthy-Minded. Thus masculinity is a social construction of spiritually consequential meaning attributed to male bodies, rather than a biological determination; formulating a concept of "serial masculinity" derived from Iris Marion Young's concept of "gender as seriality"(1997). It argues that education (and miseducation) is the primary means for the social construction of masculinity.

ISBN: 9781109330465Subjects--Topical Terms:

599244
Education, History of.

"Making a man out of a boy": Masculinity, male privilege, and miseducation in the Boy Scouts of America.
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520 $a This inquiry's central thesis is that educators can respond helpfully to the brutalization of boys by resisting masculinization and recognizing boys as "live creatures" (Dewey, 1934) who can and should learn through adventure rather than brutalization.
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