The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980.
Title:
The Camp Fire Girls : Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980.
Author:
Helgren, Jennifer.
ISBN:
9781496233677
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (373 pages)
Series:
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Series
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Preparing for Sex Equality" -- 2. "Wohelo Maidens" and "Gypsy Trails" -- 3. "All Prejudices Seem to Disappear" -- 4. "There Are Lots of Other Camp Fire Things We Can Do" -- 5. "Worship God" -- 6. Being a "Homemaker-Plus" -- 7. "Prejudices May Be Prevented" -- 8. "The War on Poverty Is Being Waged by Camp Fire Girls" -- 9. "It's a New Day" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 the twentieth-century United States.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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