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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jennifer helgren”
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  • The Camp Fire Girls

    Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

    by Jennifer Helgren ...
    Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Growing Up America

    Youth and Politics since 1945

    by Amy Sue Bix, Jenny Diamond Cheng, Cara Elliott, Jennifer Helgren, Mischa Honeck, Andrea Kwon, Molly Jessup, Paul McKenzie-Jones, Kyle Riismandel, Sarah Scripps ...
    Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people—and their representations—at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • American Girls and Global Responsibility

    A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War

    by 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 ... Read more

    $47.49 USD

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with White Women

    A Counterhistory of Feminism

    by Kyla Schuller ...
    An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate ... Read more

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  • Domestic Revolutions

    A Social History Of American Family Life

    by Steven Mintz, Susan Kellogg ...
    An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of ... Read more

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  • Young and Restless

    The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

    by Mattie Kahn ...
    **NPR's Books We Love 2023Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"*Vogue's "*Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"*Town & Country's "*The Best Books of 2023"A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls**Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus ... Read more

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  • Personal Politics

    The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

    by Sara Evans ...
    The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, ... Read more

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  • Imagining Black America

    by Michael Wayne ...
    Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined ... Read more

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  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

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  • Made in America

    A Social History of American Culture and Character

    by Claude S. Fischer ...
    Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today?With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer ... Read more

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  • Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

    Freedom's Bittersweet Song

    Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams ...
    The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher ... Read more

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