Poetry and a Sense of Place

Burnside, John

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“…For age is by its very nature liminal and transitional and boyhood has a good claim to be considered the liminal experience par excellence. In the words of John Burnside (1996), it is the period when human beings are most "susceptible to change: where being is raw, as it were, where identity is less fixed, more open to possibility" (p. 203). Some eight years ago, Anne Scott Sørensen (2000) commented on the particular ability of "boy-centered research" to "open the field of gender studies to multiplicity and diversity […] and thus keep [it] at the center of academic severity" (p. 240).…”

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Boys, Boyhood and the Construction of Masculinity

Ellis¹

2008

Boyhood Studies

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This introductory article explains the aims of the interdisciplinary conference "Masculinity and the Other" held at Balliol College, Oxford, August 29-30, 2007, at which all of the papers comprising this special issue of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies were first presented. It points out the prominence which the notions of the "boy" and boyhood and the life-cycle enjoyed at the conference and seeks more generally to suggest the benefits a more fully integrated discussion of these topics might bring to the fields of masculinity and gender studies.

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