Boy Scouts and the Manly Art of Cooking

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5220146
AutoresJay Mechling (University of California, Davis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen13
Número1-2
Páginas67-89
Fecha de publicación2005-03-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFood and Foodways (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07409710590915373
OpenAlexW2048207249
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has socialized tens of millions of boys in what it means to be masculine, but a paradoxical aspect of this gender socialization has been the instruction of boys (ages 11 through 17) in cooking and serving meals to others and cleaning up the mess. This article examines Boy Scout handbooks, pamphlets, commercial publications, the material culture of campout cookery, photographic evidence, and ethnographic fieldwork with a troop of Boy Scouts in California, to discover how the Boy Scout experience manages to teach boys an ethic of caring for others while, at the same time, still constructing that caring as masculine and not feminine

Archaeology · Boy Scouts · Ethnography · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Gender Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Military history and social perspectives