Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years - Brossura

Tebbutt, Melanie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 071906614X ISBN 13: 9780719066146

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about their behavior. It offers new perspectives on familiar and important themes in interwar social and cultural history, ranging from the cinema and mass consumption to boys' clubs, personal advice pages, street cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body. It draws on many autobiographies and personal accounts and is particularly distinctive in offering an unusual insight into working-class adolescence through the teenage diaries of the author's father, which are interwoven with the book's broader analysis of contemporary leisure developments. Being Boys will be of interest to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences and is also relevant to those teaching and studying in the fields of child development, education, and youth and community studies.

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Recensione:

'This well-researched book is a corrective to depictions of working-class young men as rigidly masculine.' Jad Adams, The TLS 'A welcome addition to the literature on inter-war youth; contributing to our understanding of American influences across this 20-year period and offering insights into aspects of experiences that affected all young men, not just a minority.' John Griffiths, Reviews in History, 'The ultimate success of this marvellous book lies in the way that Tebbutt allows the private voices behind the public swagger of the 'monkey parade' to articulate the longing in 1930's Britain for a better world while also showing how, in their own small way, boys like Les helped that world come into being.' --Richard Weight, History Today

'A valuable contextual source for historians of post-war youth' Sarah Mills, Contemporary British History, May 2013 'A fresh and welcome contribution to our understanding of youth in twentieth-century Britain' --Kate Bradley, Twentieth Century British History, 2012

'Being Boys makes an important contribution to the nexus of the history of interwar society and culture, of the history of gender and of childhood and youth, and of the history of leisure and consumerism.' --Stephanie Olsen, Journal of British Studies, 52 (3) July 2013

L'autore:

Melanie Tebbutt is Reader in History at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 071906614X
• ISBN 13: 9780719066146
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 321