Dear Colleague,

This special issue of Boyhood Studies, titled “Contemporary Boys’ Literacies and Boys’ Literatures,” highlights the diversity and complexity of boys’ literacy practices and explores the changes in defining literacy alongside significant alterations to traditional cultural practices associated with boyhood.

Volume 10, Issue 2
Contemporary Boys’ Literacies and Boys’ Literatures
Guest Editors: Garth Stahl and Cynthia Brock

Introduction
Theorizing Boys’ Literacies and Boys’ Literatures in Contemporary Times
Garth Stahl and Cynthia Brock
http://bit.ly/2hboxBt

Articles
My Words, My Literacy: Tracking of and Teaching through the On-Field Language Practices of Australian Indigenous Boys
David Caldwell, Nayia Cominos and Katie Gloede
http://bit.ly/2i5XTtJ

A Literacy Landscape Unresolved: Beyond the Boy Crisis and into Superhero Fiction
Michael Kehler and Jacob Cassidy
http://bit.ly/2zaR7xu

African American Boys’ Critical Literacy Development: The Impact of Two Strategies
Stiles X. Simmons and Karen M. Feathers
http://bit.ly/2iB3Mmt

Books Are Boring! Books Are Fun!: Boys’ Polarized Perspectives on Reading
Laura Scholes
http://bit.ly/2hbkjKi

Sponsoring Ways of Being: Adolescent Boys’ Religious Literacy Practices
Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
http://bit.ly/2i6CBfj

Buffeted by Political Winds: Children’s Literature in Communist Romania
Adrian Solomon
http://bit.ly/2iANGcC

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