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Intrepid girls : the complicated history of the Girl Scouts of the USA / Amy Erdman Farrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, Amy Erdman, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America--History.
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
- Girl Scouts--United States--History.
- Girl Scouts.
- Feminism and racism--United States.
- Feminism and racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Ferris and Ferris Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781469686868 (electronic bk.)
- 1469686864 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032982477
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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