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Autor/in | Alexander, Kristine |
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Titel | Guiding modern girls. Girlhood, empire, and internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s. |
Quelle | Vancouver; Toronto: UBCPress (2017), ix, 283 S. |
Beigaben | Illustrationen; Literaturangaben S. 247-270 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
ISBN | 978-0-7748-3587-9 |
Schlagwörter | Bildungsgeschichte; Kolonialismus; Internationalismus; 20. Jahrhundert; Weibliche Jugend; Großbritannien; Indien; Kanada |
Abstract | 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. - Contents: Introduction -- Guiding' s Beginnings -- Guiding Girls toward the Private Sphere -- "oeWe Must Give the Modern Girl a Training in Citizenship" -- Moulding Bodies and Identities in the Outdoors -- "oeThe Mass Ornament" -- Imperial and International Sisterhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
Erfasst von | BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF, Berlin |
Update | 2021/2 |