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The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980 / Jennifer Helgren

Author
Helgren, Jennifer, 1972-
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000.
Copyright Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.).
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Project Muse
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Contents
Introduction -- "The 'Camp Fire Girls' Are Preparing for Sex Equality": Gender Ideals and the Founding Years -- "Wohelo Maidens" and "Gypsy Trails": Racial Mimicry and Camp Fire's Picturesque Girl Citizen -- "All Prejudices Seem to Disappear": Race, Class, and Immigration in the Camp Fire Girls -- "There Are Lots of Other Camp Fire Things We Can Do": Disability, Disease, and Inclusion in the Camp Fire Girls -- "Worship God": The Camp Fire Girls, Antifascism, and Religion in the 1940s and 1950s -- "Being a Homemaker-Plus": Gender and the Spiritual Values of the Home -- Preparing Girls for Democracy: Race and Tolerance in the 1940s and 1950s -- "The War on Poverty Is Being Waged by Camp Fire Girls": The Metropolitan Critical Areas Project -- "It's a New Day": Camp Fire's Reckoning and Restructuring in the 1970s -- Epilogue: An All-Gender Organization for the Twenty-First Century/
Summary
"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 twentieth-century America"--
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9780803286863
1496233670
0803286864
9781496233677 (electronic bk.)
9781496233080
1496233085
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