Intrepid girls the complicated history of the Girl Scouts of the USA
"When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterho...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Girl Scouts of the USA: race, feminism, and American empire
- Origin stories: the myth and memory of Juliette Gordon Low
- Girl Scouting and the intrepid girl
- Girl Scouting and American Indian girls
- The arsenal of democracy: Girl Scouting in an age of empire
- Japanese American incarceration and the myth of international sisterhood
- Girl Scouting and the color line: African American Girl Scouting in the twentieth century
- "Even the Girl Scouts": communism and the seeds of subversion in the Girl Scouts
- From revolution to backlash: Girl Scouting in the late twentieth century
- An active education in forgetting: my 1975 pilgrimage to the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace and the Girl Scout Plantation
- Girl Scouting in the twenty-first century
- A dangerous innocence.
