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Gendered Fictions vii
ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Permissions x
Introduction xi
1. Constructing Gender 1
What Are Little Boys Made Of? 5Traditional
Swingers and Squares 11J. California Cooper
2. Reading Gender 22
Rhinoceros Beetle 23Susan Hawthorne
As Boys to Wanton Flies 29Michael Wilding
3. Reading Masculinity 42
Simply . . . Understanding Boys 42New Internationalist
A New View of Masculinity 49Cooper Thompson
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails 58David Denborough
4. Becoming a Man 63
The Altar of the Family 64Michael Wilding
The Blooding 71Peter Goldsworthy
Goodbye Jenny 83Penelope Wallace
5. Doing What Comes Naturally? 86
The Unnatural Mother 87Charlotte Perkins Gilman
in the early afternoon 97Trish McNamara
viii Gendered Fictions
Raymond’s Run 102Toni Cade Bambara
References 110
About the Authors 111