Guiding Modern Girls : Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s

Alexander, Kristine

University of British Columbia Press（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774835886
• DDC分類 369.463

Full Description

Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts, which included the aftermath of the First World War, the enfranchisement of women, and the rise of the flapper or "Modern Girl." Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged as a response to popular concerns about age, gender, race, class, and social instability.

The British-based Guide movement attracted more than a million members in over forty countries during the interwar years. Its success, however, was neither simple nor straightforward. Using an innovative multi-sited approach, Kristine Alexander digs deeper to analyze the ways in which Guiding sought to mold young people in England, Canada, and India. She weaves together a fascinating account that connects the histories of girlhood, internationalism, and empire, while asking how girls and young women understood and responded to Guiding's attempts to lead them toward a service-oriented, "useful" feminine future.

Contents

Introduction

1 Guiding's Beginnings: Victorian Antecedents and Early Twentieth-Century Growth

2 Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere: Training for Homekeeping, Mothercraft, and Matrimony

3 "We Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenship": Preparing Girls for Political and Social Service

4 Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors: Religion, Gender, and Racial-National Narratives at Girl Guide Camps

5 "The Mass Ornament": Rallies, Pageantry, Exercise, and Drill

6 Imperial and International Sisterhood: Possibilities and Limits

Conclusion

Note; Bibliography; Index