Boy Scouts and the Manly Art of Cooking

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5220146
AutoresJay Mechling (University of California, Davis, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume13
Fascículo1-2
Páginas67-89
Data de publicação2005-03-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFood and Foodways (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07409710590915373
OpenAlexW2048207249
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13

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