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The 4-H Harvest
POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA
Series editors:
Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, Stephen Pitti, Thomas J. Sugrue
Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture.
The 4-H Harvest
Sexuality and the State in Rural America
Gabriel N. Rosenberg
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rosenberg, Gabriel N., author.
The 4-H harvest : sexuality and the state in rural America / Gabriel N. Rosenberg.
pages cm. — (Politics and culture in modern America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4753-4 (alk. paper)
1. 4-H clubs—United States—History. 2. United States—Rural conditions—History—20th century. 3. Sociology, rural—United States—History—20th century. 4. Agriculture—United States—Social aspects—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series: Politics and culture in modern America.
S533.F66R67 2016
| 630.6073—dc23 | 2015006404 |
For Ruth Farrell and Selma Rosenberg
CONTENTS
Introduction. Signs of the State
Chapter 1. Agrarian Futurism, Rural Degeneracy, and the Origins of 4-H
Chapter 2. Financial Intimacy and Rural Manhood
Chapter 3. 4-H Body Politics in the 1920s
Chapter 4. Conserving Farm and Family in New Deal 4-H
Chapter 5. Citizenship and Difference in Wartime 4-H
Chapter 6. International 4-H in the Cold War
Epilogue. Future Farmers of Afghanistan: Agrarian Futurism at the Twilight of Empire
ABBREVIATIONS
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 |
| ABA | American Bankers Association |
| ADT | Agribusiness Development Team |
| AFBF | American Farm Bureau Federation |
| AIA | American International Association |
| ATP | Agricultural Training Program |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| CES | Cooperative Extension Service |
| CORDS | Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support |
| FTD | Foreign Training Division |
| GVN | Government of the Republic of Vietnam |
| IFYE | International Farm Youth Exchange |
| IICA | Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences |
| LGCA | Land Grant College Association |
| National Committee | National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work |
| PIJR | Programa Interamericano para la Juventud Rural |
| SCS | Soil Conservation Service |
| SDE | Southern Directors of Extension |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USOM | United States Operations Mission to Vietnam |
| VES | Vietnamese Extension Service |
| WFA | War Food Administration |
INTRODUCTION