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Nicholas Peterson
HSS4M The Modern Context: Baden-Powell / Scouting Movement
February 19, 2015
Research Question: How did the Scouting movement contribute to develop an ideal masculinity for boys?
Tosh, John. "Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain 1800 – 1914." Journal of British Studies Vol. 44, No. 2 (2005): 330-342. In this article Tosh explains this period as an industrializing society to which he describes as nationalism (which is his interpretation of the social constructs set in this time period). This piece of text takes a close look at how masculinity is weighed in different areas of this society such as through economic development, gender, and imperial expansion. Tosh’s points are clear. This article manages to construct a concise thought of masculinity developing in the Victorian era. As I formulate a more detailed thesis, I think keeping Tosh’s points of masculinity will be useful when looking at social constructs of the time in relation to the development of adolescence.
Tosh, John. “A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England” (New Haven, CT) Yale University Press: (1999). …show more content…
In the book titled A Man’s Place, author John Tosh dives into exposing Victorian era contradictions of their ideal masculinity all with accounts within seven specific case studies.
Tosh also creates a well-devised argument about the rise and fall of an ideology more than a fully chartered way of life in the Victorian era. What really interests me is Tosh’s theory that home life becomes a manifestation of gender. As I dive into my research topic about the ideal masculinity for boys, I plan to utilize the chapters on boys to men, and also father and child. I think these case studies will help create a concrete argument for
me.
Baden-Powell, Robert. Scouting for Boys. London: Horace Cox: (1908). Print. Robert Baden-Powell, author of Scouting for Boys and Lieutenant General in the British Army and founder of the international Scouting movement. This book is used as a guide for young boys into becoming men in late Victorian era Britain. As my primary source, I will look into the social constructs set in place for a typical boy in Britain at this time, what exactly that means, and the limitations this causes in the future.
Bratton, J. S. The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Print. Bratton's purpose is to describe and evaluate the formula of didactic fiction that dominated the field in the Victorian age, the first era to develop a concept of childhood as a state apart. Examining lists of works distributed through schools as rewards for attendance and behavior, she offers detailed summaries of plots and themes, and some collation of motifs and evaluation of quality. Bratton takes a closer look into the effects that these children’s stories have on different age groups of adolescence. As I research into the impact the scouting movement had on children participants, this novel plays a big part in comparing these children’s book hidden messages to do good and to be good to others.
Tosh, John. Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family, and Empire. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2005. Print. Tosh addresses the big issues of theory and periodization, exploring the relationship between masculinity and patriarchy, and between men's public role and their emotional and domestic lives with their families. This book will help me define the differences between masculinity and patriarchy especially with in the Scouting Movement and in the Scoutmaster to Scout relationship.
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Print. George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will. Mosse’s historical account also plays a major role in the rise of the professional, bureaucratic, and commercial middle class. He also dives into knight-like chivalry and how this soldier-like men stereotype rapidly industrialized the middle class. This book will help me create a model for the stereotypical middle-class man so I can compare these findings to that of the Scouts.
Nicholas Peterson
HSS4M The Modern Context: Baden-Powell / Scouting Movement
February 19, 2015
Research Question: How did the Scouting movement contribute to develop an ideal masculinity for boys?
Tosh, John. "Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain 1800 – 1914." Journal of British Studies Vol. 44, No. 2 (2005): 330-342. In this article Tosh explains this period as an industrializing society to which he describes as nationalism (which is his interpretation of the social constructs set in this time period). This piece of text takes a close look at how masculinity is weighed in different areas of this society such as through economic development, gender, and imperial expansion. Tosh’s points are clear. This article manages to construct a concise thought of masculinity developing in the Victorian era. As I formulate a more detailed thesis, I think keeping Tosh’s points of masculinity will be useful when looking at social constructs of the time in relation to the development of adolescence.
Tosh, John. “A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England” (New Haven, CT) Yale University Press: (1999). …show more content…
In the book titled A Man’s Place, author John Tosh dives into exposing Victorian era contradictions of their ideal masculinity all with accounts within seven specific case studies.
Tosh also creates a well-devised argument about the rise and fall of an ideology more than a fully chartered way of life in the Victorian era. What really interests me is Tosh’s theory that home life becomes a manifestation of gender. As I dive into my research topic about the ideal masculinity for boys, I plan to utilize the chapters on boys to men, and also father and child. I think these case studies will help create a concrete argument for
me.
Baden-Powell, Robert. Scouting for Boys. London: Horace Cox: (1908). Print. Robert Baden-Powell, author of Scouting for Boys and Lieutenant General in the British Army and founder of the international Scouting movement. This book is used as a guide for young boys into becoming men in late Victorian era Britain. As my primary source, I will look into the social constructs set in place for a typical boy in Britain at this time, what exactly that means, and the limitations this causes in the future.
Bratton, J. S. The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Print. Bratton's purpose is to describe and evaluate the formula of didactic fiction that dominated the field in the Victorian age, the first era to develop a concept of childhood as a state apart. Examining lists of works distributed through schools as rewards for attendance and behavior, she offers detailed summaries of plots and themes, and some collation of motifs and evaluation of quality. Bratton takes a closer look into the effects that these children’s stories have on different age groups of adolescence. As I research into the impact the scouting movement had on children participants, this novel plays a big part in comparing these children’s book hidden messages to do good and to be good to others.
Tosh, John. Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family, and Empire. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2005. Print. Tosh addresses the big issues of theory and periodization, exploring the relationship between masculinity and patriarchy, and between men's public role and their emotional and domestic lives with their families. This book will help me define the differences between masculinity and patriarchy especially with in the Scouting Movement and in the Scoutmaster to Scout relationship.
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Print. George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will. Mosse’s historical account also plays a major role in the rise of the professional, bureaucratic, and commercial middle class. He also dives into knight-like chivalry and how this soldier-like men stereotype rapidly industrialized the middle class. This book will help me create a model for the stereotypical middle-class man so I can compare these findings to that of the Scouts.