American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World During the Early Cold War

by Jennifer Helgren and Professor Jennifer Helgren

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813575796
• ISBN13: 9780813575797
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher