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Author Alexander, Kristine, author

Title Guiding Modern Girls : Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s / Kristine Alexander
Published Vancouver, BC : University of British Columbia Press, 2017

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Contents Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Guidingâ#x80;#x99;s Beginnings -- 2 Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere -- 3 â#x80;#x9C;We Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenshipâ#x80;#x9D; -- 4 Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors -- 5 â#x80;#x9C;The Mass Ornamentâ#x80;#x9D; -- 6 Imperial and International Sisterhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
Summary By analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world's largest voluntary organization for girls
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Vendor-supplied metadata
Subject Girl Guides -- England -- History -- 20th century
Girl Guides -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Girl Guides -- India -- History -- 20th century
Girls -- England -- History -- 20th century
Girls -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Girls -- India -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Girl Guides
Girls
Canada
England
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774835893
0774835893
9780774835909
0774835907
9780774835916
0774835915