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The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980
Title
The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980 / Jennifer Helgren.
ISBN
9781496233677
9780803286863
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (380 pages).
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
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/
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