Synopses & Reviews
"[A]n exciting, theoretically sophisticated and excellently documented contribution to feminist literature . . . . a timely case study of the feminisms that have emerged in response to national, ethnic, class-based, and international pressures throughout Western Europe . . . . politically astute and methodologically impeccable . . . . The scope is clearly stated; the goods promised are all delivered; the author's awesome linguistic skills have allowed for the use of particularly rich source materials not normally available to English speaking readers; and the very impressive bibliography allows what is a coherent whole to serve also as a stepping stone to further explorations . . . . a unique contribution to the comparative understanding of social movements. It will be indispensable for women's studies courses and should be read by all feminist theorists."
Jan Branson
author of The Other Half
This is a major new history that introduces the reader to the development of feminism as a social and ideological movement in Western Europe during the late twentieth century. The volume begins with an overview of the specific character and evolution of European feminism and continues with a lengthy discussion of the status of women vis-a-vis technology, domestic work, politics, labor, and civil liberty.
Kaplan, herself fluent in seven languages, outlines the relevant postwar history of each countryGermany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Icelanddrawing on numerous primary documents to provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's movements in this region of the world. Illustrating the kaleidoscope of European women's movements in their historical and political context, this book is essential reading for:
students of women's studies and activists, as an introduction to European feminism with a vast bibliography for further reading;
social movements scholars for its discussion of the various ways movements in individual countries evolved and for its analysis of different paradigms of action;
theorists and single country specialists for whom the book provides a rich basis for comparison.
Review
"The volume explores the experiences of boys who have been excluded from previous developmental research and also challenges the existing stereotypes about boys." - NYU Today
Review
"Empirical research on the lives and behavior of adolescent boys from a variety of ethnic and class backgrounds." - The Chronicle
Review
"Brings together a coherent and consistent body of literature on a topic that is often relegated to a single chapter or afterthought in similar books and edited volumes....Adolescent Boys challenges the limited and often skewed male images perpetuated by the media, superordinant male groupings, and Western men by giving voice to adolexcent boys growing up in diverse cultures of boyhood." - Harvard Educational Review
Review
"Way and Judy Chu have put together an excellent book on explorations into the lives of adolescent boys. The essays are rich in diversity, not only in the populations of boys studied, but also in research methodology and theoretical perspective."
"Empirical research on the lives and behavior of adolescent boys from a variety of ethnic and class backgrounds."
"The volume explores the experiences of boys who have been excluded from previous developmental research and also challenges the existing stereotypes about boys."
"Brings together a coherent and consistent body of literature on a topic that is often relegated to a single chapter or afterthought in similar books and edited volumes....Adolescent Boys challenges the limited and often skewed male images perpetuated by the media, superordinant male groupings, and Western men by giving voice to adolexcent boys growing up in diverse cultures of boyhood."
Synopsis
A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselvesthe texture of their lives and the ways in which they resist stereotypical representations of them.
Most of this work on boys is based primarily on middle class, white boys. Yet boys from poor and working class families as well as those from African American, Latino, and Asian American backgrounds need to be understood in their own terms and not just as a contrast to white or middle class boys. Adolescent Boys brings together the most up-to-date empirical research focused on understanding the development of boys from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The authors show how the contexts of boys' lives, such as the schools they attend shape their identities and relationships. The research in this book will help professionals and parents understand the diversity and richness of boys' experiences.
Synopsis
A look at diverse boys across American cultures.
About the Author
Niobe Way is professor of applied psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. She is a three-time NYU Press author/editor, having written
Everyday Courage and edited
Adolescent Boys as well as having co-edited
Urban Girls with Bonnie Leadbeater in 1996. She is also co-editor of
The Experience of Close Friendship in Adolescence. Judy Y. Chu is Affiliated Faculty in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University.