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

"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 Ameri...

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1. Verfasser: Jordan, Benjamin René (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"..
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 289 pages Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469627656

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