Misreading Masculinity : Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture

Foreword ix Ellin Oliver Keene Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: The Believing Game xv The ``Crisis'' in Boyhood 1(24) Making Sense of the Gender Gap 25(21) The Case Against Literacy: A Respectful Meditation on Resistance 46(23) Taste and Distaste 69(23) Violence and Innocence 92(27) Misreading Violence 119(26) Making Way for Captain Underpants: A Chapter in Three Acts 145(24) A Big Enough Room 169(24) References 193