The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

Author:   Emily K. Abel ,  Margaret K. Nelson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9781978836631


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Emily K. Abel ,  Margaret K. Nelson
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781978836631


ISBN 10:   1978836635
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction 1          The Founders                            2          Ruggedness 3          “Camping from the Neck Up” 4          Gender and Sexual Orientation            5          Sexual Abuse  6          Race                            7          Social Class    8          Indian Lore                             Conclusion      Acknowledgments Notes Index Index

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"""Tamarack Farm, the Farm and Wilderness work camp, changed my life during my four summers. Counsellors and campers opened my eyes to a bigger world and encouraged me to help make it a better world. This book is a labor of love that describes why so many of us feel that way about FW.--John Wilhelm ""Tamarack Farm 1960-63, retired Union president"""


"""Tamarack Farm, the Farm and Wilderness work camp, changed my life during my four summers. Counsellors and campers opened my eyes to a bigger world and encouraged me to help make it a better world. This book is a labor of love that describes why so many of us feel that way about FW.--John Wilhelm ""Tamarack Farm 1960-63, retired union president"""


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EMILY K. ABEL is a professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. She is the author of many books including Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and Their Families (Rutgers University Press, 2020) and Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families. MARGARET K. NELSON is A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emerita of Sociology at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Most recently she is the author of Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship (Rutgers University Press, 2020) and Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s.   Together, they have also authored Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children’s Nurse in a Northern White Household.  

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