TY - BOOK AU - Jordan,Benjamin René TI - Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: citizenship, race, and the environment, 1910-1930 SN - 9781469627670 AV - HS3313 .M634 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Boy Scouts of America KW - History KW - Masculinity KW - United States KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1074884&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -