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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Benjamin René, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boy Scouts of America--History.

Boy Scouts of America.

Masculinity--United States--History.

Masculinity.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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 Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.

ISBN:

9781469627656

1469627655

OCLC:

920966861