When a sociologist finds herself the mother of a gifted but reluctant boy soprano, she plunges unexpectedly into the world of boys-only choirs, exploring the deeper meanings of a centuries-old tradition that celebrates the gender fluidity of boy’s voices. Combining interviews with the first-person perspective of motherhood, she considers how this ancient tradition can help contemporary boys enter manhood more comfortable with emotional expression.
When a sociologist finds herself the mother of a gifted but reluctant boy soprano, she plunges unexpectedly into the world of boys-only choirs, exploring the deeper meanings of a centuries-old tradition that celebrates the gender fluidity of boy’s voices. Combining interviews with the first-person perspective of motherhood, she considers how this ancient tradition can help contemporary boys enter manhood more comfortable with emotional expression.
Rebekah Peeples is Associate Dean of the College for Curriculum and Assessment at Princeton University. She is the author of Walmart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-first Century (NYU Press, 2013).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Do You Know a Boy Who Loves to Sing? 2 It’s Like a Finishing School for Boys 3 Unchanged Trebles 4 Don’t You Want to See the World? 5 Draw the Circle Wide 6 Closets 7 A Ceremony of Discipline 8 Mother Nature Has Them by the Throat 9 The Child is Father of the Man Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction 1 Do You Know a Boy Who Loves to Sing? 2 It’s Like a Finishing School for Boys 3 Unchanged Trebles 4 Don’t You Want to See the World? 5 Draw the Circle Wide 6 Closets 7 A Ceremony of Discipline 8 Mother Nature Has Them by the Throat 9 The Child is Father of the Man Acknowledgments Notes Index
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