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- Title
Liberation of the Southern Lady: Camp Laurel Falls & the Girls' Camping Movement in the American South, c. 1920-1950.
- Authors
Stanhope, Sally
- Abstract
The article discusses the role that the U.S. Southern girls' camping movement played in dispelling traditional Southern attitudes towards gender roles and femininity from 1920 to 1950, with a particular focus on Camp Laurel Falls in Clayton, Georgia. The camping activities at Laurel Falls which defied notions of the ideal Southern lady, including swimming, riflery, art, horseback riding and canoeing, are discussed. The role that the Southern girls' camping movement played in addressing race relations in the U.S. Southern states is also discussed.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; UNITED States; CAMPS for girls; CAMPS -- Social aspects; FEMININITY -- Social aspects; SOUTHERNERS (U.S.); GENDER role; RACE relations in the United States; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; ATTITUDE (Psychology); MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Southern Historian, 2011, Vol 32, p43
- ISSN
0738-5102
- Publication type
Article