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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface
Charlie Hailey | vii
Camping Out: An Introduction
Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason | 1
Notes Home from Camp, by Susan Sontag
Daniel Mallory Ortberg | 25
Part I Camp Sites
“The most curious” of all “queer societies”?
Sexuality and Gender in British Woodcraft Camps, 1916–2016
Annebella Pollen | 31
Queer Pedagogy at Indian Brook Camp
Flavia Musinsky | 51
“No Trespassing”: Girl Scout Camp and the Limits of the Counterpublic Sphere
Kathryn R. Kent | 65
Nation-Bonding: Sexuality and the State in the Jewish Summer Camp
Alexis Mitchell | 83
Notes on Church Camp
D. Gilson | 99
Queer at Camp: A Selected Assemblage of Resistance and Hope
Mark Lipton | 114
The Camping Ground “Down Under”: Queer Interpretations of the Australian Summer Holiday
Paul Venzo | 132
Part II Camp Stories
Camping with Walt Disney’s Paul Bunyan: An Essay Short
Tammy L. Mielke and Andrew Trevarrow | 149
Illegal Citizen: The Japanese-American Internment Camp
in Soon-Teck Oh’s Tondemonai—Never Happen!
Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno | 157
Why Angela Won’t Go Swimming: Sleepaway Camp,
Slasher Films, and Summer Camp Horrors
Chris Mcgee | 174
Striking Camp: Empowerment and Re-Presentation in Lumberjanes
Kyle Eveleth | 188
Escape to Moonrise Kingdom: Let’s Go Camping!
Kerry Mallan and Roderick Mcgillis | 211
“Finding We’Wha”: Indigenous Idylls in Queer Young Adult Literature
Joshua Whitehead | 223
Acknowledgments | 241
Works Cited | 243
List of Contributors | 263
Index | 267
