Author: Jennifer Helgren

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up A …

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 t …

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 ot …

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 wo …