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The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980

By: Jennifer Helgren

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The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980

By: Jennifer Helgren

As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls' education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier, the Camp Fire Girls became America's first and, for two decades, most popular girls' organization. Based on Protestant middle-class ideals--a regulatory model that reinforced hygiene, habit formation, hard work, and the idea that women related to the nation through service--the Camp Fire Girls invented new concepts of American girlhood by inviting disabled girls, Black girls, immigrants, and Native Americans to join. Though this often meant a false sense of cultural universality, in the girls' own hands membership was often profoundly empowering and provided marginalized girls spaces to explore the meaning of their own cultures in relation to changes taking place in twentieth-century America. Through the lens of the Camp Fire Girls, Jennifer Helgren traces the changing meanings of girls' citizenship in the cultural context of the twentieth century. Drawing on girls' scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and oral history interviews, in addition to adult voices in organization publications and speeches, The Camp Fire Girls explores critical intersections of gender, race, class, nation, and disability.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496233662

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9781496233660

American Girls and Global Responsibility

A New Relation to the World During the Early Cold War

By: Jennifer Helgren

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American Girls and Global Responsibility

A New Relation to the World During the Early Cold War

By: Jennifer Helgren

American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren argues that a new internationalist girl citizenship took root in the country in the years following World War II in youth organizations such as Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, YWCA Y-Teens, schools, and even magazines like Seventeen. She shows the particular ways that girls’ identities and roles were configured, and reveals the links between internationalist youth culture, mainstream U.S. educational goals, and the U.S. government in creating and marketing that internationalist girl, thus shaping the girls’ sense of responsibilities as citizens.

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235

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Rutgers University Press

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0813575826

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9780813575827

The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

By: Jennifer Helgren

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The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

By: Jennifer Helgren

Through the lens of America’s first and most popular girls’ organization, Jennifer Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls’ citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in the twentieth-century United States.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803286864

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9780803286863

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