Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp
Masculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in organizations associated with nature and the outdoors....
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| description | Masculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in organizations associated with nature and the outdoors. This study relies on nine in-depth interviews conducted with outdoor educators and sixteen hours of ethnographic research completed at Mountain View Scout Camp, a backpacking program for youth operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Findings indicate that Mountain View is gendered both through its organizational aesthetics, which valorize a hegemonically masculine ideal, and via sta members’ conception of nature as feminine and forestry work and tools as masculine. Results also suggest that men employed at Mountain View will occasionally embody a hybrid masculine gender performance by utilizing non-hegemonic traits of masculinity such as pro-feminist ideas. However, these episodic masculine performances also serve to subtly reproduce gender inequalities by accepting only a speci c type of woman and rewarding men for super cial allyship. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7acb444e0f644529d53510bfd48fe122022-12-21T19:12:51ZengDalhousie University LibrariesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography2369-87212020-10-0110232010.15273/jue.v10i2.103509529Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking CampSamantha Pentecost0Southwestern UniversityMasculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in organizations associated with nature and the outdoors. This study relies on nine in-depth interviews conducted with outdoor educators and sixteen hours of ethnographic research completed at Mountain View Scout Camp, a backpacking program for youth operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Findings indicate that Mountain View is gendered both through its organizational aesthetics, which valorize a hegemonically masculine ideal, and via sta members’ conception of nature as feminine and forestry work and tools as masculine. Results also suggest that men employed at Mountain View will occasionally embody a hybrid masculine gender performance by utilizing non-hegemonic traits of masculinity such as pro-feminist ideas. However, these episodic masculine performances also serve to subtly reproduce gender inequalities by accepting only a speci c type of woman and rewarding men for super cial allyship.https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/10350hegemonic masculinityhybrid masculinityorganizational aestheticsforestryoutdoor education |
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| title | Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp |
| title_full | Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp |
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| title_short | Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp |
| title_sort | gendering the boy scouts examining hegemonic masculinity at a co ed backpacking camp |
| topic | hegemonic masculinity hybrid masculinity organizational aesthetics forestry outdoor education |
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