What determines the inherent properties in attributed to boys? Are they always the same? What is the real position of the boy in the modern family, school and society? How he sees himself and his body? How are implemented and boyish notions of masculinity? What accounts for the boys, who can not or do not want to comply with the proposed regulatory canon? In what direction is the modern gender pedagogy? Summarizing the data world of interdisciplinary research, the scientist does not give pedagogical prescriptions, but his book is necessary for anyone who is willing to think about these issues. Igor S. Kon was born on May 21, 1928 in Leningrad. He graduated from the the Faculty of History of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen (1947) and two post-graduate at the new history and philosophy (1950). Ph.D. in History (1950), PhD (1950), Doctor of Philosophy (1960), Professor (1963), Academician of the Russian Academy of Education (1989), Honorary Professor of Cornell University (1989), Doctor honoris causa University of Surrey (1992) . Areas of scientific interest - the philosophy and methodology of history, the history of sociology (the founder and first president of the Research Committee on the History of Sociology, Sociological Association of the World), ethics, social and age psychology, theory of personality, anthropology and sociology of childhood and adolescence, sexology. The author of over 40 books and 300 articles, many of which have been translated into foreign languages.

21 1928 . .. (1947) , (1950). (1950), (1950), (1960), (1963), (1989), (1989), honoris causa (1992). (1950-1952), - (1953-56), . (1956-1967), (1976-68), (1968-1972), (1972-1974). 1975 . . , ( ), , , , , . 40 300 , . (" ", " " .). (International Academy of Sex Research; European Association of Experimental Social Psychology; International Sociological Association; Polish Academy of Sex Research; Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sexualforschung; European Association for Adolescent Psychology ) ("", "Archives of Sexual Behavior," "Zeitschrift fur Sexualforschung," "Journal of Homosexuality", "Journal of the History of Sexuality", "Childhood", "Current Sociology", "Sexualities", "Men and Masculinities").