Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Schooling the "Dangerous Classes": Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2 The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity -- 3 The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers -- 4 Bad or Backward?: Gender and the Genesis of Special Education -- 5 "The Boys' Own Story": Masculinity, Peer Culture, and Delinquency -- 6 Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.