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African American Clubwomen
African American Women Writers
american
American Library Association
Author_Gwen Tarbox
campfire
Campfire Girl
Category=DSBH
Category=DSK
Category=JBSF1
Clubwomen's Movement
collectivist
Collectivist Impulse
College Equal Suffrage League
College Fiction
Cottage City
Deep Dale
drew
early 20th century girls' fiction analysis
edward
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
female empowerment movements
gender roles in education
girl
Girl Friend
Girl Sleuth
girls' peer groups
impulse
Jazz Age
Jo March
Mount Holyoke Student
Municipal Housekeeping
NACW
nancy
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew Mystery
National American Woman Suffrage Association
outdoor
Outdoor Girls
progressive era literature
Semper Fidelis
stratemeyer
Student Culture
Vassar College
women's social history
Young Men
youth organizations history
Product details
- ISBN 9780815335375
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditionally male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness, and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female cooperation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the center of society's debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women. Authors discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emma Dunham Kelley, Laura Lee Hope (psuedonym for Lilian Garis), Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Wirt Benson), and Margaret Sutton.
Jerome Nadelhalft University of Maine, Gwen Athene Tarbox
