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100 1 $aBristow, Nancy K.,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95075638
245 10 $aMaking men moral :$bsocial engineering during the Great War /$cNancy K. Bristow.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axxiv, 298 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe American social experience series ;$v34
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-290) and index.
505 00 $g1.$t"An Invisible Armor": The Progressive Social Vision and World War One --$g2.$t"Full-Orbed Moral Manhood": Cultural Nationalism and the Creation of New Men and Women --$g3.$tReformers between Two Worlds: The Battle against Tradition and Working-Class Modernism --$g4.$tBuilding a National Community: The Complexities of Gender --$g5.$tRepression and Resistance: African Americans and the Progressives' National Community --$g6.$tThe End of the Crusade: Demobilization and the Legacy of the CTCA.
520 $aOn May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, "We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts dearest treasures - our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr.
520 8 $aPresident, if the hell-holes that infest their training camps should trip up their unwary feet and they be returned to us besotted degenerate wrecks of their former selves cursed with that hell-born craving for alcohol, we can have no such hope.".
520 8 $aAnxious about the United States's pending entry into the Great War, fearful that their sons would be polluted by the scourges of prostitution, venereal disease, illicit sex, and drink that ran rampant in the training camps, and concerned that this war, like others before it, would encourage moral vice and corruption, countless Americans sent such missives to their government officials.
520 8 $aIn response to this deluge, President Wilson created the Commission on Training Camp Activities to ensure the purity of the camp environment. Training camps would henceforth mold not only soldiers, but model citizens who, after the war, would return to their communities, spreading white urban middle-class values throughout the country. Fortified by temperance, abstinence, self-control, and a healthy athleticism, marginal Americans were to be transformed into truly masculine crusaders.
520 8 $aWhat began as a federal program designed to eliminate venereal disease soon mushroomed into a powerful social force intent on replacing America's many cultures with a single homogeneous one. Though committed to the positive methods of education and recreation, the reformers did not hesitate to employ repression when necessary. Those not conforming to this vision often faced exclusion from the reformers' idealized society, or sometimes even imprisonment. "Unrestrained" cultural expressiveness was stifled.
520 8 $aSocial engineering ruled the day. Combining social, cultural, and military history and illustrating the deep divisions among reformers themselves, Nancy Bristow, with the aid of dozens of evocative photographs, here brings to life a pivotal era in the history of the U.S., revealing the complex relationship between the nation's competing cultures, progressive reform efforts, and the Great War.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zUnited States$xConduct of life.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCommission on Training Camp Activities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95076916
650 0 $aSocial reformers$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMilitary bases$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113791
830 0 $aAmerican social experience series ;$v34.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84738111
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