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We Boys Together - Teenagers in Love Before Girl-craziness (Hardcover, New)
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We Boys Together - Teenagers in Love Before Girl-craziness (Hardcover, New)
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Teenage boys are wild about girls. When their hormones kick in at
puberty, they can think of nothing else, and that's the way it has
always been - right? Wrong. Before World War II, only sissies liked
girls. Masculine, red-blooded, all-American boys were supposed to
ignore girls until they were 18 or 19. Instead, parents, teachers,
psychiatrists, and especially the mass media encouraged them to
form passionate, intense, romantic bonds with each other. This book
explores romantic relationships between teenage boys as they were
portrayed before, during, and immediately after World War II,
including - teenage melodramas: ""We'll always be together!"";
""Adventure Boys"": ""I never knew what the treasure was..."";
Henry Aldrich: ""Would you mind if I take you out sometime and buy
you a milkshake?""; Andy Hardy: ""Hi, tenderfoot, drop by
sometime""; ""Terry and the Pirates"": ""I'd feel a lot better if I
slept with you tonight""; ""Superhero and Sidekick"": ""Come on,
let's go home""; the ""Dead End Kids"": ""They may be
underprivileged, but they sure ain't underdeveloped""; the ""Little
Tough Guys"": ""Lots of guys go in pairs""; colonial fantasies:
""Stay away, this is my friend!"" ; the teenage musical: ""If
there's a double meaning in that, I got it""; high school
yearbooks: ""Tall, dashing, quick, and fair, spurns all girls with
vigilant care!"" The author takes the reader through a rich
landscape of media - sci fi pulps, comics, adventure stories, tales
of teen sleuths, boys' serial novels, wartime bestsellers, and
movies populated by many types of male adolescents: ""Boys Next
Door"", ""Adventure Boys"", ""Jungle Boys"", and ""Lost Boys"". In
Hollywood movies, ""Boys Next Door"" like Jackie Cooper, Ronald
Sinclair, and Jimmy Lydon were constantly falling in love, but not
with girls. In serial novels, ""Jungle Boys"" like Bomba, Sorak,
and Og Son of Fire swung through the trees to rescue teenage boys,
not teenage girls. In comic strips and on the radio, ""Adventure
Boys"" like Don Study, Jack Armstrong, and Tim Tyler formed lasting
romantic partnerships with other boys or men. ""Lost Boys"" like
Frankie Darro, Leo Gorcey, and Billy Halop starred in dozens of
movies about pairs of poor urban teenagers sticking together, with
never a girl in sight.
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