The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980

by Jennifer Helgren

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496233085
• ISBN13: 9781496233080
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"