TY - BOOK AU - Helgren,Jennifer TI - American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War SN - 9780813575797 AV - HQ798 .H437 2017 U1 - 320.40835 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New Brunswick, NJ : PB - Rutgers University Press, KW - Citizenship KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Cold War KW - Social aspects KW - Girls KW - Societies and clubs KW - Internationalism KW - Responsibility KW - Political aspects KW - Sex role KW - Teenage girls KW - Political activity KW - Youth KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - girls, cold war, war, global, responsibility, history, United States, citizens, girlhood, girl, nation, nationhood, gender, military, WW2, world war 2, youth culture, internationalist, internationalist girl, postwar, postwar U.S., postwar united states, us history, women's history, women's studies, childhood N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction: "Encouraging Friendships between the Girls of All Nations" --; 1. "What Kind of World Do You Want?": Preparing Girls for Peace and Tolerance in the Atomic Age --; 2. "Hello, World, Let's Get Together": Building Global Conversations through Pen Pals and Aid Packages --; 3. "Famous for Its Cherry Blossoms": Reimagining Japan and Germany in the Postwar Period --; 4. "Playing Foreign Shopper": Consuming Internationalism --; 5. "We Hand the Communists Powerful Propaganda Weapons to Use against Us": Defending Global Citizenship during the Post-World War II Red Scare --; Epilogue: The "Watchers of the Skies" --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813575827 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813575827 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813575827.jpg ER -