On My Honor: Creating Space for Thinking and Living Girl Scouts Differently in (Post)Colonial Hawai'i

Autor/inn/en	Halagao, Patricia Espiritu; Kaomea, Julie
Titel	On My Honor: Creating Space for Thinking and Living Girl Scouts Differently in (Post)Colonial Hawai'i
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 30 (2018) 7, S.866-881 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2017.1288858
Schlagwörter	Youth Clubs; Females; Mothers; Daughters; Hawaiians; Asian Americans; Pacific Americans; Mother Attitudes; Identification (Psychology); Sex; Race; Social Class; Employed Women; Hawaii (Honolulu) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugendfreizeitstätte; Weibliches Geschlecht; Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Hawaianer; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Mutterliebe; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr; Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung
Abstract	Girl Scouts aims to foster leadership by encouraging girls to discover themselves, make connections, and take action to make the world better. This paper chronicles the five-year journey of eight professional mothers of color who sought to provide their daughters with a space to 'think and live differently' as Girl Scouts and young women of color in (post)colonial Hawai'i. Through questionnaires and a semi-structured focus group interview, mothers reflect on their original intentions to create a 'safe space' for their daughters to engage with the politics of gender, race, and class and to rethink, review, and rework their identities. Mothers' reflections reveal success in creating safe spaces for the critical analysis of gender, but comparatively less success in critical analyses of race and class--a phenomenon that the mothers suggest may have been complicated by (1) the enduring myth of Hawai'i as a multicultural paradise, (2) Girl Scouts' assimilationist history, and (3) the mothers' own relatively privileged positions. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01