E-book
The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980
Record details
- ISBN: 9781496233677
- ISBN: 0803286864
- ISBN: 1496233670
- ISBN: 9780803286863
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (pages cm.).
remote - Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
- Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
- Copyright: [2022]
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. |
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| 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. |
