The Nurture of Nature - Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Wall Klappentext This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Zusammenfassung This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape! child rearing! and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Modernism in Camp: A Wilderness Paradox / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Back to Nature: Escaping the City, Ordering the Wild2 Socialism for the Rich: Class Formation at the Private Camp3 "All they need is air": Building Health, Shaping Class at the Fresh Air Camp4 Making Modern Childhood, the Natural Way: The Camp Experiment with Psychology, Mental Hygiene, and Progressive Education5 Shaping True Natures in Nature: Camping, Gender, and Sexuality6 Totem Poles, Tepees, and Token Traditions: "Playing Indian" at CampConclusion: All Antimodern Melts into Modern?NotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Wall
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780774816403
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1640-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Nature | History | Society; Nature - History - Society; Nature | History | Society; Nature History Society
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology