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The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps - Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
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The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps - Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
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Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have
received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm &
Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb,
resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways,
but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff
took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding
environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping
trips and the work projects. Importantly, the Farm & Wilderness
camps were some of the first private camps to become racially
integrated.The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive
Ideals in the Twentieth Century traces these camps, both unique and
emblematic of American youth culture of the twentieth century, from
their establishment in the late 1930s to the end of the twentieth
century. Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson explore how ideals
considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be
reconfigured by the camps to respond to shifts in culture and
society as well as to new understandings of race and ethnicity,
social class, gender, and sexual identity. To illustrate this
change, the authors draw on over forty interviews with former
campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book
tells a story of progressive ideals, crises of leadership,
childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential
American summer camp.
General
Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Emily K. Abel
• Margaret K. Nelson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
182 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-978836-64-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-978836-64-3 |
Barcode: |
9781978836648 |
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