Bibliograph

The Camp Fire Girls, gender, race, and American girlhood, 1910-1980, Jennifer Helgren

Type

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The Camp Fire Girls, gender, race, and American girlhood, 1910-1980, Jennifer Helgren

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Camp Fire Girls

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1289919771

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Helgren

Series statement

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Sub title

gender, race, and American girlhood, 1910-1980

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

Table Of 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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