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Boy Protagonists

Boy Protagonists is a narrative construct in children's science fiction literature denoting a male juvenile character who occupies the central role in the story, driving the plot through active engagement with scientific, technological, or speculative elements while embodying developmental and gendered archetypes specific to the formative male experience in imagined futures.

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46

Authors

12

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Publications

40

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization

Dana Howell, Jack Zipes · Journal of American Folklore · 1985 · 280 citations

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Androgyny, Mimesis, and the Marriage of the Boy Heroine on the English Renaissance Stage

Phyllis Rackin · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 1987 · 160 citations

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Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900

Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 153 citations

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Violent Boys and Precocious Girls: Regulating Childhood at the End of the Millennium

Valerie Walkerdine · Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood · 2000 · 92 citations · Full text

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Making American boys: boyology and the feral tale

Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 91 citations

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Authors

46

  1. RX
    Rae X. Yan

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  2. JP
    Joseph P. Mozur

    1 publications · 19 citations

    1

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  3. JZ
    Jack Zipes

    University of Florida, United States

    1 publications · 280 citations

    1

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  4. WG
    William G. Brozo

    George Mason University, United States

    1 publications · 34 citations

    1

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  5. MH
    Marion Hathway

    1 publications · 31 citations

    1

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Institutions

12

  1. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  2. Western Sydney University

    Richmond, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    92 citations

  3. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    160 citations

  5. University of Guelph

    Guelph, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    58 citations

  6. Catholic University of America

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  7. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. Philadelphia University

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    160 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 5 publications · 381 citations

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  2. Medium Ævum

    2 publications · 30 citations

    2

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  3. Dickens Studies Annual

    2 publications · 24 citations

    2

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  4. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 2 publications · 361 citations

    2

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  5. The Reading Teacher

    RT · 1 publications · 11 citations

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