Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America : citizenship, race, and the environment, 1910-1930 /

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"In this illuminating look at gender and scouting in the United States, Benjamin René Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jordan, Benjamin René (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Temas:
Boy Scouts of America > History.
Boy Scouts of America.
Masculinity > United States > History.
Masculinité > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
Masculinity.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ax-men and typewriter-men: the BSA's full-orbed manhood
  • The BSA's triumph: balancing traditional and modern manhood and authority
  • Scout character: men's skills for corporate-industrial work and urban society
  • Practical citizenship
  • Nature, conservation, and modern manhood
  • Mainstreaming white immigrants and the industrial working class in the BSA
  • Rural manhood and lone scouting on the margins of a modernizing society
  • The right sort of colored boy and man: African American scouting
  • Epilogue: Scout manhood and citizenship in the Great Depression.

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