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ERIC Number: EJ669235
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1911
Teenage Boys' Leisure Reading Dispositions: Juggling Male Youth Culture and Family Cultural Capital.
Love, Kristina; Hamston, Julie
Educational Review, v55 n2 p161-77 Jun 2003
Interviews with three teenage boys and their parents in a middle-class community explored why the boys self-identify as reluctant readers, resisting approved forms of literacy. They pursue types of reading that contribute to their construction of masculine identities; their parents' attempts to influence reading are conditioned by traditional notions of literacy. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Influence, Literacy, Males, Masculinity, Multimedia Materials, Reading Habits, Sexual Identity, Social Capital
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Youth Culture
Note: Special Issue: Boys, Schooling and Masculinities.