What Does “Boyhood Studies” Mean?

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Martin Ashley Edge Hill University Ashleym@edgehill.ac.uk

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Jürgen Budde University of Halle juergen.budde@uni-flensburg.de

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Andrew Calimach Independent scholar, New York acalimach@gmail.com

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Heather Ellis University of Oxford h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk

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Pauline Farley University of Western Australia

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Stephen T. Graef University of Akron

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Diederik Janssen Independent researcher, The Netherlands diederikjanssen@gmail.com

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Amanda Keddie Griffith University a.keddie@uq.edu.au

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Bertha Mook University of Ottawa mookb@uottawa.ca

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Peter Redman The Open University peter.redman@open.ac.uk

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Maria Elena Reyes University of Texas Pan American maria.reyes@utrgv.edu

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For this, the sixth issue of Thymos, which will conclude its third year of publication and with a lively plan of upcoming issues already in place, I asked the members of our editorial board and all past contributors to Thymos to informally respond to this question: “As someone who has written about ‘the boy’ and ‘boyhood’, how do you conceptualize and define these terms as you begin to study and write about issues facing ‘boys’, in the cities, in rural settings, in schools, in various contemporary cultures?” I also suggested that the meaning of “the boy” and “boyhood” may, in fact, be the central issue of boyhood studies at this point. The question elicited eleven remarkably different responses, which follow.

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