‘It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: emotional labour and girls' bodies

Goerisch, Denise; Swanson, Kate

doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.849855

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“…The Girl Scouts have taken measures to maintain older scout membership by offering programmes emphasizing social justice, environmental and sustainability issues, and topics related to body image and self-esteem (Goddard, 2005). In spite of these offerings, older scouts still feel marginalized within the cookie sale, since they believe the organization and society, more generally, pays more attention to younger scouts because they are 'cuter' (Goerisch & Swanson, 2015). I interviewed members from both troops and held a focus group with Troop 1234, a Senior Girl Scout Troop.…”

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“…Girl Scouts play upon the relationship between nationalism and care in the context of the cookie sale, going as far as describing OTM as a service project rather than as a fundraiser. During a meeting with Troop 1234, the scouts discussed how to expand their market base as sales declined due to their busy and hectic schedules and recent hostility towards their teenaged bodies (refer Goerisch & Swanson, 2015). Their troop leader, Lucy, suggested soliciting OTM donations from local corporations as many have corporate philanthropy programmes.…”

Section: An Everyday Geopolitics Of Carementioning

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Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Goerisch

2018

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In response to the events of 9/11, the Girl Scouts of San Diego created a service programme within the annual Girl Scout cookie sale called Operation Thin Mint, which sends cookies to soldiers serving overseas. Representations of American patriotism and national identity are featured prominently throughout the cookie sale as girls come to embody America’s role in overseas military conflicts, an embodiment of everyday geopolitical processes that frame the US military as protector of American innocence, ideals and values. Scouts come to engage with political and economic systems that position them beyond their communities as they ‘sell the nation’ to consumers as a form of care, blurring the boundaries between the public and private spheres as well as the local and global. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study on the Girl Scout cookie sale, this article will examine the complex gendered relationship between the American military, girls’ bodies and care.

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Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Goerisch

2018

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“…While important work by geographers has examined spaces of youth and community work (Blazek ; Skelton ), youth councils and out‐of‐school care (Matthews ; Smith and Barker ), alternative education (Kraftl ), voluntary uniformed youth organisations (Goerisch and Swanson ; Mills ), Sunday Schools (Harvey et al . ) and the experiences of young people and families engaged in diverse extra‐curricular activities (Holloway and Pimlott‐Wilson ), one area marginalised in this literature is the relationship between volunteering and employment – a relationship that I contend is at the heart of understanding the spatialities of youth work and, more broadly, a range of social and political issues.…”

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Geographies of youth work, volunteering and employment: the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in post‐war Manchester

Mills

2015

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This paper brings together current geographical debates on volunteering and employment through a unique focus on post-war youth work. I use the example of the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in Manchester, UK to make a series of wider arguments about the emotional labour of paid/unpaid work, faith-based identities and the spatialities of informal education. Through conceptualising youth work as a series of localised and inherently spatial practices, the paper explores how the identities of employed volunteers and youth workers shape -and are shaped by -the contexts through which they 'work' with young people. I draw on archival materials to show how the Club operated in practice at one site in Manchester, and place this experience in the context of the national organisation's post-war reconstruction efforts. I show how the Club navigated a path through the post-war moral landscape of childhood, shaped by the wider Anglo-Jewish community, and I illustrate the dynamic relationships between paid and unpaid helpers in the performance of youth work. The paper concludes by drawing connections between the historical record and contemporary youth work practice. The professionalisation of youth work that emerged in the post-war era is currently being dismantled via new geographies of voluntarism in austere times and, now as then, questions around the role of faith-based youth organisations and the religious identities of their volunteers and employees remain politically charged.

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Origins of Informality: Examining the Historical and Spatial Roots of Informal Day-Labor Hiring Sites

Crotty

2019

Temporary Appropriation in Cities

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‘It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: emotional labour and girls' bodies

Cited by 7 publications

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Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Geographies of youth work, volunteering and employment: the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in post‐war Manchester

Origins of Informality: Examining the Historical and Spatial Roots of Informal Day-Labor Hiring Sites

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