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Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do..
Edmundson, Mark | October 9, 2000 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men," by Christina Hoff Sommers. The overt gist of Sommers' book, written in stolid, mass-production-style prose, is that people have begun to think of boyhood as a pathological state. What society once considered a normal part of being a boy-- aggression, energy, noise, restlessness; rampant, crude curiosity--now looks like sick behavior. The current archetypes for boys, the figures that popular culture takes to epitomize being young and male, are the thugs from the Spur Posse in California and the killers at Columbine High.

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WAR Against Boys, The (Book); BOOKS & reading; SOMMERS, Christina Hoff; CRITICISM; YOUNG adults; LITERATURE
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