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Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée : Jordan, Benjamin René. Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America (DLC) 2015033879 (OCoLC)920966861 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin René Jordan |
ISBN: | 9781469627670 1469627671 9781469627663 1469627663 |
OCLC Number: | 1012443400 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne |
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. |
Responsibility: | Benjamin René Jordan. |
Abstract:
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.
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