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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Helgren, Jennifer, 1972- author.
Series:
Expanding frontiers.
Expanding Frontiers
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Girls--Societies and clubs.
Girls.
Girls--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Girls--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Camp Fire Girls.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
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.
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/
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Helgren, Jennifer The Camp Fire Girls
ISBN:
1-4962-3367-0
OCLC:
1347430085

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