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It pays to study a boy, to know him as he does not know himself. I admit it takes time; but he whose soul is imbued with the spirit of the Great Teacher will find time for the work (Stableton 1900: 36).
It is my very great pleasure to introduce the tenth-anniversary 2017 volume of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Over the years, the platform has invited the precariously simultaneous exploration and envisioning of a thematic and disciplinary crossroads-planologically a twin project that, happily, has remained an open invitation to cartographers from all quarters of the compass. "We have entered upon a very wide theme," to echo an anonymous nineteenth-century boyologist (Anon. 1864: 221). This has been reflected in the range of special issues put out over the years, not excluding the present one, with the generous aid and invariably admirable dedication of guest editors. Themed issues have addressed historically divergent constructions of young masculinities; the politics of young sexualities; contemporary issues in education and schooling; cinema; and queer theoretical perspectives. Individual contributions have varied more widely from literature studies, cultural theory, and social history to ethnography, psychometrics, and media studies. Increasingly...