Boys are besieged by images in the media that encourage slacking over studying, competition over teamwork. The authors give parents advice on how to talk with their sons about these troubling images and provide them with tools to help their sons resist these messages.
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Boys are besieged by images in the media that encourage slacking over studying, competition over teamwork. The authors give parents advice on how to talk with their sons about these troubling images and provide them with tools to help their sons resist these messages.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009016923 Type of material Book Personal name Brown, Lyn Mikel, 1956-Main title Packaging boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes / Lyn Mikel Brown, Sharon Lamb, and Mark Tappan. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. Description xii, 340 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780312379391 0312379390 LC classification HD9970.5. C483 U635 2009 Related names Lamb, Sharon. Tappan, Mark B. Contents Big, bold, and branded: what boys wear--Super size me: what boys watch--It's a guy thing: what boys read--Do you hear what I hear? : what boys listen to--Wanna play? : what boys do--Rebel, resist, and refuse: conversations with our sons. LC Subjects Children's paraphernalia--Marketing--Social aspects--United States. Boys--United States--Social conditions--21st century. Boys--United States--Psychology. Child consumers--United States. Mass media and youth--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 339.4/7083410973 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn317928672
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Good in good dust jacket. DJ with light wear to edges. Boards and spine intact. No apparent markings to pages, light tanning to edges. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. A few bent corners.