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Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp
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Vrooman, Patrick Duane
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182780149
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Year and Degree
2007, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Popular Culture.
Abstract
This study examines the folklore produced by the Boy Scout summer camp staff members at Camp Lakota during the summers of 2002 and 2003, including songs, skits, and stories performed both in front of campers as well as “behind the scenes.” I argue that this particular subgroup within the Boy Scouts of America orders and passes on a particular constellation of masculinities to the younger Scouts through folklore while the staff are simultaneously attempting to pass as masculine themselves. The complexities of this situation—trying to pass on what one has not fully acquired, and thus must only pass as—result in an ordering of masculinities which includes performances of what I call taking a pass on received masculinities. The way that summer camp staff members cope with their precarious situation is by becoming tradition creators and bearers, that is, by acquiescing to their position in the hegemonizing process. It is my contention that hegemonic hetero-patriarchal masculinity is maintained by partially ordered subjects who engage in rather complex passings with various masculinities.
Committee
Joe Austin (Advisor)
Pages
546 p.
Keywords
Boy Scouts of America
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Summer Camp Staff Culture
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Passing
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Pass on
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Pass as
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Take a pass on
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Hegemony
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Masculinities
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Ordering
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Acquiescence
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Youth culture
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Vrooman, P. D. (2007).
Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182780149
APA Style (7th edition)
Vrooman, Patrick.
Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp.
2007. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182780149.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Vrooman, Patrick. "Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182780149
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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