Handbook for Guardians of the Camp Fire Girls

Handbook for Guardians of the Camp Fire Girls
Author: Camp Fire Girls
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1924
Genre: Girls
ISBN:

Handbook for volunteer guardians (that is, adult leaders) of Camp Fire groups. Many of the early traditions of Camp Fire Girls, including dresses, symbolism, and language are culturally appropriated from Indigenous peoples. The contents and design of this volume are representative of this.

The Camp Fire Girls

The Camp Fire Girls
Author: Jennifer Helgren
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2022-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496233670

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.

Circular

Circular
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1930
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The Child

The Child
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1943
Genre: Child care
ISBN:

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1925
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

A world list of books in the English language.