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The Chocolate War and “the sweet science”

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Boxing's very vocabulary suggests a patriarchal world taken over by adolescents. This world is young. Its focus is youth.Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing

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  1. Jan Susina
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Jan Susina teaches courses in children's and adolescent literature at Kansas State University. His research interests include contemporary adolescent culture and Victorian literary fairy tales.

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Susina, J. The Chocolate War and “the sweet science”. Child Lit Educ 22, 169–177 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139123

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