Prologue : the rhetoric of the current "boy crisis"
Introduction : beyond stereotypes and role models : the abject and the American boy
Me Tarzan, you other : the evolution of an icon
Reading in the gaps and lacks : (de)constructing masculinity in Louis Sachar's Holes
The battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, bodily borders, and B.A.D. boys : pleasure and abjection in the Captain Underpants series
And Majin Buu said, "I'll eat you up!" : consuming Japanese cultural imports
Men in cloaks and high-heeled boots, men wielding pink umbrellas : witchy masculinities in the Harry Potter novels
Conclusion : marking masculinity.
Boys in children's literature and popular culture : masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child by Annette Wannamaker. ISBN 9780415974691. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.