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The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980  Cover Image E-book E-book

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

Helgren, Jennifer, 1972- (author.). Project Muse. (distributor.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780803286863
  • ISBN: 1496233670
  • ISBN: 0803286864
  • ISBN: 9781496233677
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).
  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
  • Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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/
Restrictions on Access Note:
NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Camp Fire Girls.
Camp Fire Girls.
Girls > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Girls > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Girls > Societies and clubs.
Genre: Electronic books.


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