Making American BoysWill boys be boys? What are little boys made of? Kenneth B. Kidd responds to these familiar questions with a thorough review of boy culture in America since the late nineteenth century. From the "boy work" promoted by character building organizations such as Scouting and 4 H to current therapeutic and pop psychological obsessions with children's self esteem, Kidd presents the great variety of cultural influences on the changing notion of boyhood.