REPRESENTATIONS ON FEMALE BODY AND EDUCATION OF WOMEN BY EXPANSION OF SCOUTING/GUIDING DURING THE FIRST DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the representations on body, education and women within the expansion of Scout movement, which occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century. We studied the work of specialists in the history of education, writings of the founders of the movement in England and in the United States and published articles on Brazilian Guiding. We conclude that the bodily activities practiced within Scouting and Guiding were territories for debate between maintaining and changing social roles assigned to girls and boys.