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Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910-1930 / Benjamin Rene Jordan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jordan, Benjamin René, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity--United States--History.
- Masculinity.
- Boy Scouts of America--History.
- Boy Scouts of America.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In this illuminating look at gender and scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908504-5-4
- 979-88-908504-6-1
- 1-4696-2767-1
- OCLC:
- 944187060
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