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Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America

Henry Jenkins

"How might reading Benjamin Spock and Margaret Mead help us to better understand Dennis the Menace, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood?"--

GenresParent and childUnited StatesParentingBoys

368 pages, 6 editions

English edition · First published 2024 by New York University Press · ISBN 9781479831869

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Editions

6 editions

English

  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · New York University Press · 2024 · ISBN 9781479831869 This page
  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · Blackstone Publishing, Inc. · 2025 · ISBN 9798228448131
  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · Blackstone Publishing, Inc. · 2025 · ISBN 9798228448148
  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · New York University Press · 2024 · ISBN 9781479831876
  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · New York University Press · 2024 · ISBN 9781479831883
  • Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America · New York University Press · 2024 · ISBN 9781479831890

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