Guiding Modern Girls : Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s an...

by Kristine Alexander

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Guiding Modern Girls : Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, Hardcover by Alexander, Kristine, ISBN 0774835877, ISBN-13 9780774835879, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Drawing on various archival sources, this book examines the ideals and programs of the Girl Guide movement in England, Canada, and India in the 1920s and 1930s, in the context of its response to the possibilities and threats of the imagined concept of the Modern Girl and young women’s new aesthetic and leisure choices. It describes the ideas, activities, and responses of girls in the movement, as well as the movement’s British founders and the women who led groups in these countries, in the context of race, gender, class, and imperial/international Girl Guiding. It contends that the Guide literature and programs reflected and contributed to a conservatively modern ideal of imperial and international girlhood by combining an older emphasis on maternalism and domesticity with a focus on bravery, independence, and female masculinity, and promoted a friendly familial idea of international and imperial relations influenced by older ideas about race and class-based hierarchies, while also allowing some girls to adapt and use the movement for their own ends, which were sometimes subversive. It details the movement’s Victorian origins and early 20th-century growth; its attempts to train girls for their roles as domestic managers, mothers, and wives; its attempts to create a generation of

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780774835879
• Condition: Fine

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