Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
• Presents a unique global history and scholarly examination of one of the most popular and understudied voluntary youth movements in world history• Looks at Scouting's struggle to define women's roles in society through war, social upheaval, and political change• Explores how Scouting has changed and how it has remained the same, with girls still learning a promise and law, pursuing badge work, and aiming to be good local, national, and international citizens• Examines Scouting's internationalist focus, which has allowed the movement to expand beyond narrow national boundaries and connect to many important events in world history, including both world wars, and to global institutions such as the United Nations, UNICEF, and CARE"Proctor (history, Wittenberg U., Springfield, Ohio) traces the history of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting from the official founding of the UK's Girl Guiding organization in 1910 to the present day, examining why the organization developed and how it has remained relevant to girls in the UK and throughout the world over the past century. Coverage includes the origins of Girl Guiding/Scouting, the role of WWI in launching and revising worldwide Guiding, controversies regarding the subsequent global expansion of the organizations, the impact of WWII on the global Guide association, transformations that have taken place since the 1940s, the triumphs and tragedies of Guiding's international ambitions in the 20th century, and the challenges posed to Girl Guiding/Scouting by today's ompeting activities for girls and changing political realities for women. Academic but accessible to the general reader."-Reference & Research Book News