Andrew, Lucy

dc.contributor.author	Andrew, Lucy	*
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-15T09:31:35Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-15T09:31:35Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-01
dc.identifier.citation	Andrew, L. (2018). '"Be Prepared!" (But Not Too Prepared): Scouting, Soldiering and Boys’ Roles in World War I. Boyhood Studies, 11(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2018.110104	en
dc.identifier.issn	2375-9240
dc.identifier.doi	10.3167/bhs.2018.110104
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10034/621132
dc.description	This article was originally published as Lucy Andrew, "“Be Prepared!” (But Not Too Prepared): Scouting, Soldiering, and Boys’ Roles in World War I", Boyhood Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2018): 47-62	en
dc.description.abstract	This article examines the shifting representation of the ideal of masculinity and boys’ role in securing the future of the British Empire in Robert Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout movement from its inauguration in 1908 to the early years of the First World War. In particular, it focuses on early Scout literature’s response to anxieties about physical deterioration, exacerbated by the 1904 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. In Baden-Powell’s Scouting handbook, Scouting for Boys (1908), and in early editions of The Scout – the official magazine of the Scout movement – there was a strong emphasis on an idealised image of the male body which, implicitly, prepared Boy Scouts for their future role as soldiers. The reality of war, however, forced Scouting literature to acknowledge the restrictions placed upon boys in wartime and to redefine the parameters of boys’ heroic role in defense of the Empire accordingly.
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Berghahn Journals	en
dc.relation.url	http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/boyhood-studies	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Baden-Powell	en
dc.subject	Boy Scout movement	en
dc.subject	Scouting for Boys	en
dc.subject	The Scout	en
dc.subject	body image	en
dc.subject	World War I	en
dc.subject	physical deterioration	en
dc.subject	British manliness	en
dc.title	"Be Prepared!" (But Not Too Prepared): Scouting, Soldiering and Boys’ Roles in World War I	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.department	University of Chester	en
dc.identifier.journal	Boyhood Studies	en
dc.identifier.volume	11
dc.date.accepted	2018-03-29
or.grant.openaccess	Yes	en
rioxxterms.funder	unfunded	en
rioxxterms.identifier.project	unfunded research	en
rioxxterms.version	AM	en
rioxxterms.versionofrecord	https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2018.110104
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate	2020-03-01
dc.source.issue	1
dc.source.beginpage	47-62
html.description.abstract	This article examines the shifting representation of the ideal of masculinity and boys’ role in securing the future of the British Empire in Robert Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout movement from its inauguration in 1908 to the early years of the First World War. In particular, it focuses on early Scout literature’s response to anxieties about physical deterioration, exacerbated by the 1904 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. In Baden-Powell’s Scouting handbook, Scouting for Boys (1908), and in early editions of The Scout – the official magazine of the Scout movement – there was a strong emphasis on an idealised image of the male body which, implicitly, prepared Boy Scouts for their future role as soldiers. The reality of war, however, forced Scouting literature to acknowledge the restrictions placed upon boys in wartime and to redefine the parameters of boys’ heroic role in defense of the Empire accordingly.
rioxxterms.publicationdate	2018-03-01
dc.date.deposited	2018-05-15