"You can still be a feminist, be proud of being a woman, and deal with the gender binary" Issues of Sex and Gender at Indian Brook Camp

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Fairchild, Emily

Keywords

Gender, Queer: Pedagogy, Single-Sex, Education, Women, Girls

Area of Concentration

Sociology

Abstract

Established in 1941 to provide girls the opportunity to engage in physical work and wilderness trips, Indian Brook is a single-sex summer camp in Southern Vermont. Though one must be female-bodied to attend or be employed at Indian Brook, one does not necessarily have to identify as a girl/woman; this relationship is emblematic of the unique, complex, and inevitably tenuous dynamic that is a product of the incorporation of queer pedagogy into a community organized upon seemingly conventional notions of sex and gender. Utilizing ethnographic methods over a two-month period in the summer of 2010, this study examines Indian Brook�s ability to embrace this complex relationship and thereby foster an environment that encourages holistic camper empowerment, by which campers are empowered both as women, and as individuals unconstrained by gender.

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