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    With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture
    With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture
    With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture
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    With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

    By Gary Alan Fine

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    What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its accompanying activities, boys learn to play, work, and generally be "men."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateDec 10, 2014
    ISBN9780226223544
    With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture
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    Gary Alan Fine

    Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Among his books are Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work (California, 1994), Difficult Reputations (2000), and Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends (1992). Patricia A. Turner is Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African American Culture (California, 1993) and Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (1994).

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