American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World During the Early Cold War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813575797)

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.

Author: Jennifer Helgren
ISBN-10: 0813575796
ISBN-13: 9780813575797
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.13w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2017