Guiding Modern Girls

Guiding Modern Girls unveils how the early Girl Guide movement carved out spaces of intergenerational female homosociality that were neither fully empowering nor exclusively oppressive. On a larger scale, it gestures at the untapped potential buried in the history of youth organizations for charting the stony and serpentine trails that led to the emergence of a global modernity.

~Mischa Honeck, Historisches Institut, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, H-SOZ-KULT

Kristine Alexander makes a significant contribution to the intertwined histories of girlhood, imperialism, and the international Girl Guide movement.

~Kristine Moruzi, Canadian Historical Review

Alexander paints a complex image of the organization, which was the epitome of the simultaneously dynamic and traditional nature of British society in the interwar period, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Girl Guides through this thought-provoking transnational study.

~Sian Edwards, University of Winchester, Historical Studies in Education, Vol. 31, No. 1