Table of Contents

Preface
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

About the Author

Kenneth B. Kidd (Edited By)
Kenneth B. Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale and Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature. He is also co-editor (with Derritt Mason) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (Fordham).
Derritt Mason (Edited By)
Derritt Mason is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

Reviews

By turns hilarious and damning, this provocative collection evokes memories of summer camp, reframes nostalgia, and activates Camp sensibilities. Kidd, Mason, and their contributors blend queer pedagogy, critical theory, and creative nonfiction to create a memorable work of scholarship.---Nathalie op de Beeck, Pacific Lutheran University