10. Fit body, fit mind: Scandinavian youth and the value of work, education, and physical fitness in progressive-era Chicago

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Shaping the future: Institutions and the law
7. 1. Playing progressively?: race, reform, and playful pedagogies in the origins of Philadelphia’s Starr garden recreation park, 1857–1904 19
8. 2. Model schools and field days: Colorado fuel and iron’s construction of education and recreation for children, 1901–1918 42
9. 3. Of families or individuals?: southern child workers and the progressive crusade for child labor regulation, 1899–1920 59
10. 4. “I was so glad to be in school here”: religious organizations and the school on Ellis island in the early 1900s 81
11. 5. The trajectory of benevolence: progressivism in the little colonel books 102
12. Part II. Managing change: children, youth, and families
13. 6. Willful disobedience: young people and school authority in the nineteenth-century united states 125
14. 7. The contested meanings of child marriage in the turn-of-the-century united states 145
15. 8. Sex, abortion, and prostitution in the lives of gilded age Chicago girls 166
16. 9. Ohio departures: George as progressive youth in Sherwood Anderson’s winesburg, Ohio 187
17. 10. Fit body, fit mind: Scandinavian youth and the value of work, education, and physical fitness in progressive-era Chicago 208
18. 11. Duty and destiny: a progressive reformer’s coming of age in the gilded age 230
19. Documents. Thinking with their heads 253
20. Questions for consideration 282
21. References 283
22. About the contributors 289
23. Index 293