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American girls and global responsibility : a new relation to the world during the early Cold War /

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Main Author: Helgren, Jennifer, 1972- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Youth > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Girls > United States > Societies and clubs > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Responsibility > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 20th century.
Internationalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States > History.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1953.
United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Care 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.