American Girls and Global Responsibility : : A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War / / 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 international...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • 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