Forging Cooperative Gender Relations Among Youths in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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FORGING COOPERATIVE GENDER RELATIONS AMONG YOUTHS IN THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA: THE CASE OF THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MOVEMENT EVE CARROLL-DWYER A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) School of Humanities and Languages University of New South Wales 2015 ORIGINALITY STATEMENT ‘I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. 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FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Date of completion of requirements for Award: THIS SHEET IS TO BE GLUED TO THE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF THE THESIS TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................ v Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Christian Endeavor: A Brief Description ............................................................................................ 4 Previous Scholarship ................................................................................................................................... 5 The Sources ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 1 The Foundation of Christian Endeavor ............................................................. 11 Francis E Clark: Biography ..................................................................................................................... 13 Harriet Clark ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Clark’s Christian Endeavor Plan: The Youth Problem and the CE Solution ...................... 20 Harriet’s reaction to the Pledge: The Hangover of St. Paul ....................................................... 24 The Cooperative Model ............................................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 2 The Expansion of Christian Endeavor ............................................................... 31 The United States ........................................................................................................................................ 33 CE Growth in the United States During its First Decade ........................................................... 34 CE: World-Wide Christian Endeavor .................................................................................................. 47 The Formation of the World Christian Endeavor Union (WCEU) .......................................... 48 Christian Endeavor in China .................................................................................................................. 53 Christian Endeavor in Turkey ............................................................................................................... 62 Chapter 3 The Struggle to Engender Cooperation ............................................................. 69 Setting the Scene and Historiography ............................................................................................... 72 Avoiding Radicalism: Placing CE within a Feminist Spectrum ............................................... 77 Cooperation and Equality of the Sexes: Novelty and Discomfort .......................................... 81 Chapter 4 Creating True Men and True Women ................................................................ 97 Business and Careers ................................................................................................................................ 97 Christian Endeavor: A Safe Space ..................................................................................................... 101 Courtship and Marriage ........................................................................................................................ 108 Finding the Gender Balance ................................................................................................................ 112 Chapter 5 Boyhood and Junior Christian Endeavor ...................................................... 119 The Crisis of Masculinity: Historiography .................................................................................... 119 iii Christian Endeavor and the Boy ....................................................................................................... 126 The Knights of King Arthur ................................................................................................................. 129 Forbush’s and fellow Boyologists’ take on Christian Endeavor .......................................... 132 Calls for Adaptation ................................................................................................................................ 141 Chapter 6 Resisting the Masculinist Push ......................................................................... 145 Muscular Methods: Resistance/Adaption/Acceptance .......................................................... 158 Christian Endeavor and Social Gospel ............................................................................................ 167 Adapting Social Gospel’s Masculinist Label ................................................................................. 179 Conclusion Modern Christian Endeavor ............................................................................ 185 Why study CE? .........................................................................................................................................