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American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls' studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren argues that a new internationalist girl citizenship took root in the country in the years following World War II in youth organizations such as Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, YWCA Y-Teens, schools, and even magazines like Seventeen. She shows the particular ways that girls' identities and roles were configured, and reveals the links between internationalist youth culture, mainstream U.S. educational goals, and the U.S. government in creating and marketing that internationalist girl, thus shaping the girls' sense of responsibilities as citizens.

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As the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls' education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier, the Camp Fire Girls became America's first and, for two decades, most popular girls' organization. Based on Protestant middle-class ideals--a regulatory model that reinforced hygiene, habit formation, hard work, and the idea that women related to the nation through service--the Camp Fire Girls invented new concepts of American girlhood by inviting disabled girls, Black girls, immigrants, and Native Americans to join. Though this often meant a false sense of cultural universality, in the girls' own hands membership was often profoundly empowering and provided marginalized girls spaces to explore the meaning of their own cultures in relation to changes taking place in twentieth-century America. Through the lens of the Camp Fire Girls, Jennifer Helgren traces the changing meanings of girls' citizenship in the cultural context of the twentieth century. Drawing on girls' scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and oral history interviews, in addition to adult voices in organization publications and speeches, The Camp Fire Girls explores critical intersections of gender, race, class, nation, and disability.

Girls --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Societies and clubs

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Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.

Girls --- Girls. --- Children --- Females --- Young women --- Social conditions. --- Filles --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales

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vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- gender --- Wereldoorlog I --- geschiedenis --- interbellum --- sociale geschiedenis --- Höch, Hannah --- Kahlo, Frida --- Hoffman, Malvina --- Ginno, Elizabeth --- Tomljenovic, Ivana --- Cahun, Claude --- 1919 - 1939 --- 20ste eeuw --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars. --- gender. --- Wereldoorlog I. --- geschiedenis. --- interbellum. --- sociale geschiedenis. --- Höch, Hannah. --- Kahlo, Frida. --- Hoffman, Malvina. --- Ginno, Elizabeth. --- Tomljenovic, Ivana. --- Cahun, Claude. --- 1919 - 1939. --- 20ste eeuw. --- Magritte, René. --- Arp, Hans. --- Lanskoy, André. --- Guiette, René. --- César, Baldaccini. --- Balla, Giacomo.