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Flappers and the Charleston 1928<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

C<\/strong>amps for girls began in 1902, according to the American Camping Association, with about 100 camps; by 1916, there were over one thousand. \u201cPopular culture and adult critics depicted the modern girl\u2014referred to regularly as a flapper by the 1920s\u2014as disregarding the roles of \u201cdutiful daughter, wife and mother\u201d in favor of romantic love, consumer goods, frivolity, and \u201csexual, economic or political emancipation.\u201d (Weinberg)<\/p>\n

B<\/strong>ack to nature enthusiasts held that women were more rooted in nature than men based on the historical women\u2019s reproductive roles in societies. The Indian imagery in camps were directly related to the perception of a native women\u2019s association with nature. (Schrepfee 156) Camping organizations pressed for girl\u2019s physical health and other competencies, yet they inferred these activities were intentionally for providing a good foundation for family relations, healthy moral values, responsibility, and later, marriage.<\/p>\n

Th<\/strong>e Campfire Girls was one of the earliest girls\u2019 organizations founded by Charlotte and Luther Gulick. Gulick\u2019s program incorporated feminine Indian imagery to inculcate beauty, service, domesticity, and health\u2014elements they believed critical to carry forward as part of modern American girls\u2019 identity (Helgren.334).<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Gulick, Photo: Campfire Girls of America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pictured are campers wearing bifurcated skirts. Photo courtesy of The Green Mountain Camp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

G<\/strong>irls camps promoted self- assurance, group dynamics – and rugged play on par with the boy\u2019s camps. Often, there were conflicting opinions on what girls were allowed to do at camp. A girl was expected to be adventurous but not too adventurous. Laura Mattoon<\/a><\/em> at Camp Keonka<\/a><\/em>, NH created the first scandalous bifurcated skirt for girl campers.<\/p>\n

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Campers practicing lashing in the woods. 1916.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

G<\/strong>irls were expected to be prepared to develop physically and connect with nature and presumably, their natural role in society.\u00a0 Unlike camps that promoted the Indian Maiden<\/a> ideals, Girl Scouts<\/a><\/em> advanced the notion that \u201cback to nature for girls was experienced by assuming the can-do attitude of the pioneer ancestors.\u201d (Miller 5-6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camps for girls began in 1902, according to the American Camping Association, with about 100 camps; by 1916, there were over one thousand. \u201cPopular culture…<\/p>\n

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