Author: Mary Sanguinetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578865973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a biography of Edith M. Kempthorne who was the Camp Fire Girls' first field secretary. A pianist from New Zealand who started the first Camp Fire group in Alaska in 1913, she worked for the Camp Fire girls from 1915 until she retired in 1949. She traveled widely in the United States helping to organize Camp Fire councils and directing training for Camp Fire guardians.
Edith Kempthorne and the Camp Fire Girls
Author: Mary Sanguinetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578865973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a biography of Edith M. Kempthorne who was the Camp Fire Girls' first field secretary. A pianist from New Zealand who started the first Camp Fire group in Alaska in 1913, she worked for the Camp Fire girls from 1915 until she retired in 1949. She traveled widely in the United States helping to organize Camp Fire councils and directing training for Camp Fire guardians.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578865973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a biography of Edith M. Kempthorne who was the Camp Fire Girls' first field secretary. A pianist from New Zealand who started the first Camp Fire group in Alaska in 1913, she worked for the Camp Fire girls from 1915 until she retired in 1949. She traveled widely in the United States helping to organize Camp Fire councils and directing training for Camp Fire guardians.
The Camp Fire Girls
Author: Jennifer Helgren
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
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.
The Camp Fire Girl
Author: Camp Fire Girls
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Edith Kempthorne and the Camp Fire Girls
Author: Mary Sanguinetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578865973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a biography of Edith M. Kempthorne who was the Camp Fire Girls' first field secretary. A pianist from New Zealand who started the first Camp Fire group in Alaska in 1913, she worked for the Camp Fire girls from 1915 until she retired in 1949. She traveled widely in the United States helping to organize Camp Fire councils and directing training for Camp Fire guardians.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578865973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a biography of Edith M. Kempthorne who was the Camp Fire Girls' first field secretary. A pianist from New Zealand who started the first Camp Fire group in Alaska in 1913, she worked for the Camp Fire girls from 1915 until she retired in 1949. She traveled widely in the United States helping to organize Camp Fire councils and directing training for Camp Fire guardians.
Everygirl's Magazine ...
Author: Rowe Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Five Year Experiment in Training Volunteer Group Leaders, 1922-27
Author: Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Five Year Experiment in Training Volunteer Group Leaders, 1922-1927
Author: Elizabeth Kemper Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girl Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Child
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
History along the Way
Author: Dan K. Utley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447695
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state’s highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers. Peopled with colorful characters—a national leader of Camp Fire Girls, an army engineer who mapped the Republic of Texas frontier, a hunter of mammoth bones, a ragtime composer, civil rights leaders, and an iconic rock star, among others—the book gives readers an intriguing and expanded look at the details, challenges, and lives commemorated by the words cast in metal on these wayside markers scattered across the Lone Star landscape. Also recounted in History along the Way are the stories of historic structures (from roadside architecture and elaborate West Texas hotels to university Old Mains and country schoolhouses of Gillespie County), engineering features (the Hidalgo Pumphouse in South Texas and the Rainbow Bridge in East Texas), and even town mascots (a jackrabbit, a mule, and a prairie dog). Accompanied by helpful maps, colorful photographs, and informative sidebars, History along the Way is guaranteed to inform, amuse, and intrigue. Every part of Texas gets a visit in this anthology of select sites, making it easy for travelers—both the armchair and touring varieties—to enjoy and learn about the fascinating nooks and crannies of history captured in all their variety by the roadside markers of Texas.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447695
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state’s highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers. Peopled with colorful characters—a national leader of Camp Fire Girls, an army engineer who mapped the Republic of Texas frontier, a hunter of mammoth bones, a ragtime composer, civil rights leaders, and an iconic rock star, among others—the book gives readers an intriguing and expanded look at the details, challenges, and lives commemorated by the words cast in metal on these wayside markers scattered across the Lone Star landscape. Also recounted in History along the Way are the stories of historic structures (from roadside architecture and elaborate West Texas hotels to university Old Mains and country schoolhouses of Gillespie County), engineering features (the Hidalgo Pumphouse in South Texas and the Rainbow Bridge in East Texas), and even town mascots (a jackrabbit, a mule, and a prairie dog). Accompanied by helpful maps, colorful photographs, and informative sidebars, History along the Way is guaranteed to inform, amuse, and intrigue. Every part of Texas gets a visit in this anthology of select sites, making it easy for travelers—both the armchair and touring varieties—to enjoy and learn about the fascinating nooks and crannies of history captured in all their variety by the roadside markers of Texas.
Girlhood
Author: Jennifer Helgren
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.